Belgium has begun deploying hundreds of troops to patrol the streets after security forces smashed a suspected Islamist "terrorist" cell planning to kill police officers.
Up to 300 soldiers will be deployed in the capital Brussels and the northern city of Anvers, which has a large Jewish population, Prime Minister Charles Michel's office said in a statement.
"The mobilised troops will be armed and their primary responsibility will be to survey certain sites" and to reinforce police.
The soldiers could also eventually be deployed to the industrial eastern city of Verviers.
That was where security forces killed two suspected Islamists in a huge raid on an alleged jihadist cell planning to attack police.
The Belgian raid came a week after Islamist attacks in and around Paris killed 17 people.
Those attacks rekindled fears in Europe about the threat posed by young Europeans returning home after fighting alongside extremist groups in the Middle East.
Armed police have also been deployed in France and Germany.
Following the raid in Verviers, Belgian police arrested 13 people during a series of raids across the country.
Five of these people were later charged with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group".
Belgian prosecutors said there were no immediate links with last week's attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman, the country's worst attacks in half a century.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said any suspicious movements in Ireland are being monitored "very carefully".
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