Police in Morocco have dismantled an ISIS cell in a joint operation with Spain in the country’s northern region of Nador. The Moroccan anti-terror police arrested the leader of the jihad alongside other three members near Madrid.
The suspects, aged between 24 and 39, followed Islamic State group propaganda and organized meetings to plan terrorist operations in response to repeated calls from ISIS leaders. The operation also netted electronic equipment, mobile phones, balaclavas, and extremist literature
Additionally, Spanish police said they arrested a man believed to organize meetings with other radical Islamists around the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Morocco’s north coast and being in contact with jihadists in Syria and Mali.
Morocco has been seeing a spike of terror activities since the fall of ISIS-Central in Iraq and Syria and an upsurge in affiliates in North, Maghreb and Sahel regions of Africa.
