MADRID // Fourteen people were arrested Tuesday in Spain and Morocco during an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting recruiters for ISIL, Spain’s interior ministry said.
The operation continues, the ministry said, without giving any details.
The intelligence services of both countries “today arrested 14 people in Martin de la Vega [in the Madrid region] and in Fez, Casablanca, Nador, Al Hoceima and Driouech in Morocco.”
“Those arrested belong to a network recruiting and sending foreign fighters to join the ranks of ISIL,” it said.
Europe has been grappling with radicalised Muslims leaving to fight for ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
France has the highest overall numbers joining the fight in Syria, with the government reporting that 843 had left for Syria as of May — more than half of them unknown to authorities at the time of their departure.
* Agence France-Presse
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