Morocco says arrests Belgian national tied to Paris attacks

Moroccan authorities have arrested a Belgian national of local origin directly linked to the attackers who carried out the Paris shootings and bombings in November that killed 130 people, the government said in a statement on Monday. The interior ministry gave only the suspect's initials in Arabic and said he fought in Syria with al-Nusra front before joining the Islamic State. "He went to Syria with one of the suicide bombers of Saint Denis," it said.