Belgian Man Arrested and Charged for Planning Terrorist Attack on US Embassy

A Belgian soldier stands guard outside the US Embassy in Brussels in a file photo. Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty Images

BRUSSELS—Police in Brussels have arrested a man suspected of planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in the Belgian capital, prosecutors said June 24.

The Belgian man, identified only by his initials, M.G., was charged with “an attempted attack in a terrorist context and preparing a terrorist offense.”