2016 Brussels bombings

=== Profiles ===
A total of five attackers took bombs into the airport and metro, with three of them dying in suicide bombings and the remaining two, who left without detonating their bombs, arrested sixteen days later. All five had also been involved in the planning and organization of the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]]. They were identified and named as:

* [[Ibrahim El Bakraoui]], aged 29, was one of the suicide bombers at Brussels Airport. In 2010, he had shot and injured a police officer during an attempted robbery at a [[Bureau de change|currency exchange]] office. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released early. In June 2015 he was arrested in Turkey near the Syrian border and deported. He was wanted in connection with the Paris attacks.<ref name=Guardian240316>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/23/brussels-attacks-schaerbeek-flat-coordinated-atrocities-plotted-el-bakraoui|title=The men in the top floor flat who sowed terror in Brussels|date=24 March 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=12 March 2023|archive-date=12 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312203911/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/23/brussels-attacks-schaerbeek-flat-coordinated-atrocities-plotted-el-bakraoui|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Najim Laachraoui]], aged 24, was one of the suicide bombers at Brussels Airport. He had travelled to [[Syria]] in 2013. He is believed to have made the bombs used in the Paris attacks.<ref name=Guardian240316/>
* [[Khalid El Bakraoui]]: aged 27, the younger brother of Ibrahim El Bakraoui, carried out the suicide bombing at Maelbeek metro station. In 2012 he received a prison sentence for a violent car-jacking. He was wanted for breaching his parole conditions and also in connection with the Paris attacks.<ref name=Guardian240316/>
* [[Mohamed Abrini]], born 27 December 1984, fled Brussels Airport without detonating his bomb. He was arrested on 8 April 2016. He was a childhood friend of brothers [[Salah Abdeslam]] and Brahim Adbeslam, who were both involved in the Paris attacks. On 29 June 2022 at a [[Paris attacks trial|court in Paris]], Abrini was convicted of involvement in the attacks and received a sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61989354 |title=Paris trial: Salah Abdeslam guilty as historic trial ends |work=BBC |date=30 June 2022 |access-date=8 December 2022 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209182729/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61989354 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Osama Krayem]]: born 16 August 1992, accompanied Khalid El Bakraoui to the metro but fled without detonating his explosives. He was arrested on 8 April 2016.<ref name="BBC35869985"/> Having grown up in Sweden, he went to Syria in 2015 and joined the IS group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/brussels-bombings-osama-krayem-suspect-charged-role-paris-attacks|title=Brussels bombings suspect charged with role in Paris attacks|date=20 April 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=12 March 2023|archive-date=12 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312203911/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/brussels-bombings-osama-krayem-suspect-charged-role-paris-attacks|url-status=live}}</ref> On 29 June 2022 at the Paris attacks trial, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.<ref name=BBC/>