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Abdelhamid Abaaoud (8 April 1987 – 18 November 2015) was a Belgian-Moroccan Islamic terrorist, who had spent time in Syria, known as a place where radical groups operate and train, prior to returning to Europe. He was suspected of having organized multiple terror attacks in Belgium and France, and is known to have participated in the November 2015 Paris attacks. Prior to the Paris attacks, there was an international arrest warrant issued for Abaaoud for his activities in recruiting individuals to Islamic terrorism in Syria. Abaaoud was also known as Abu Omar Soussi (Arabic: أبو عمر السوسي‎, meaning "from Sous", his Moroccan family's place of origin) and as Abu Omar al-Baljīkī (Arabic: أبو عمر البلجيكي‎, meaning Abou Omar the Belgian), both of which were noms de guerre.

Terrordåden i Paris i november 2015 var ett samordnat terrorattentat med skottlossningar och explosioner på sex platser i centrala Paris och i förorten Saint-Denis den 13 och 14 november 2015. Uppgiften om antalet offer varierar i olika källor. En uppgift är 129 döda, varav 89 på Le Bataclan under en konsert. 433 fick sjukhusvård för sina skador varav 80 bedömdes vara i ett kritiskt tillstånd. Dagen efter anklagade Frankrikes president François Hollande Islamiska staten för att ha organiserat dådet, vilket bekräftades då terrororganisationen i ett uttalande tog på sig ansvaret.

On 15 January 2015, Belgian police carried out a raid on premises in Verviers, Belgium. According to news sources, the raids were an anti-terrorist operation against Islamist radicals.