Several terrorism attacks prevented in Belgium

Belgian authorities have prevented several terrorist attacks in recent months, a Belgian newspaper is quoted by Deutsche Welle as saying on Saturday.

A report in the daily L'Echo cited unnamed sources who likened the foiled attacks to a deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels on May 24 which left four people dead.

Authorities believe that the suspect in the Brussels attack - Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche - had links to Islamist extremists in Syria. He was recently extradited from France to Belgium where he faces charges of "murder in a terrorist context."

According to the sources of the Belgian newspaper report, authorities believe there are links between the planned terrorist attacks and the jihadist group "Islamic State," which has taken over large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.

Roughly 400 Belgians are believed to have travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist groups, L'Echo wrote. Police have been surveilling several of the 90 who have returned so far.