Two appear in Australian court on terror charges

The suspected brother of a suicide bomber killed in Syria and another alleged jihadist have appeared in an Australian court charged with funding and recruiting for al-Qaida offshoot terrorists in the Middle East.

Omar Succarieh and 21-year-old Agim Kruezi appeared in a Brisbane city court a day after their arrests.

Neither man entered pleas or applied for bail. They were remanded in custody to appear in the same court in October.

Both were charged with making preparations, raising funds and recruiting for incursions into Syria with intentions of engaging in hostile activity.

Succarieh, a 31-year-old driver from Brisbane, is the older brother of an Australian who is widely reported to have died in a car bomb blast in Syria last year.