A Belgium appeals court on Thursday sentenced top jihadist recruiter Khalid Zerkani to 15 years in prison after convicting him of enlisting key suspects in the Brussels and Paris attacks.
Three people arrested in Brussels in connection with the November Paris attacks have been released without charge, Belgian prosecutors said.
Belgium has charged two new suspects with terrorist offences in connection with last month's deadly Brussels airport and metro attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said.
Brussels airport scheduled nearly 40 flights on Monday, as Belgium struggles to get back to normal after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the departure hall nearly two weeks ago.
Brussels Airport reopened to a thin stream of passengers on Sunday, 12 days after suicide bombers destroyed its departure hall and killed 16 people.
Brussels Airport reopens on Sunday with three ‘symbolic’ flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by Islamic State suicide bombers.
Belgian judicial authorities approved the extradition to France of Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, prosecutors said, adding that a date for the transfer had not been set.
Belgian police on Thursday carried out a new raid in connection with a foiled attack plot in France whose main suspect was charged this week with membership of a terrorist organisation, prosecutors said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his country shared Belgium's pain over the Brussels attacks as he added a wreath of white flowers to a sea of tributes outside Maalbeek metro station.
Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear site was killed but the local prosecutor on Saturday ruled out any militant link.
Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that yielded several arrests Friday as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed".
Belgium's federal prosecutor confirmed that Najim Laachraoui was one of the two suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport this week in a series of attacks which left 31 people dead.
