Four people have been arrested in Belgium in raids aimed at smashing jihadist recruitment groups.
Prosecutors say the suspects have been charged with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group".
The four, who were picked up in a nationwide swoop involving about 170 police on Friday, have been remanded in custody after appearing before an investigating magistrate.
Their identities have not been disclosed.
The raids on 22 locations, mainly in the eastern Limburg province, close to the border with the Netherlands, turned up no weapons.
"This case concerns people who want to go to Syria and fight there," the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.
It said the operation was not related to a January 15 shootout between police and jihadists in the Belgian town of Verviers, in which two suspected militants were shot dead.
Meanwhile, one of two Belgians arrested in France a day after the Verviers shootout was handed over to Belgian authorities on Friday, the Belga agency reported.
The man identified as Ismael El Abdi, 32, was also charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group and taken into custody, the report cited the prosecutor's office as saying.
His younger brother, who was arrested with him, has legally opposed his transfer to his homeland.
Belgium has been on high alert since the January 15 uncovering of a cell plotting attacks on police on the street and in stations.
The group's suspected mastermind - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian jihadist who allegedly fought alongside the Islamic State group in Syria - is still at large.
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