A man held in a Spanish anti-jihadist raid was spotted in September in front of a Barcelona concert hall where the band that was playing during the Bataclan attack in Paris was due to perform, police said Wednesday.
Catalan police have arrested eight people including suspected members of a jihadi group linked to last year’s suicide bomb attacks in Brussels’ airport and subway.
A Swede who took police on a high-speed chase through Barcelona at the wheel of a stolen truck full of gas cylinders had partied hard the previous night, local authorities said Wednesday.
The man, who was travelling with an Irish passport, is wanted by authorities in the US for being part of an al-Qaeda cell suspected of planning an attack on a Swedish cartoonist.
The Spanish National Police reported on Friday that they had arrested a woman at Málaga airport upon her arrival back in Spain after allegedly trying to join Isis.
Spanish police arrested on Tuesday a woman on the Canary Islands suspected of recruiting girls and teenagers for the Islamic State group, the interior ministry said.
A German-American foreign policy expert warned that Spain is at a heightened risk of radical jihadists, even as the government continues its crackdown on suspected terrorists.
The Basque government has been forced to apologize after mistakenly listing the Civil Guard police force as a terrorist group on a website aimed at providing information on victims.
The lead vocalist of a rap rock band was among 19 people arrested on Tuesday for threatening politicians, writing disparaging messages about terrorism victims and glorifying terrorist groups, all on social networks.
The Spanish couple who survived the terrorist attack in Tunisia spent 17 hours hiding in a cleaning cupboard within the Bardo museum after hearing gunshots.
A Moroccan court sentenced a former Spanish soldier to eight years in jail Friday for heading a cell that planned to carry out "terrorist acts" in the north African kingdom, the MAP news agency reported.
Spanish security forces launched pre-dawn raids on Friday to break up a jihadist cell in Spain's north African territory of Melilla, arresting six suspects, the government said.
Three people were killed, including a male and female suicide bomber, and 15 wounded in late Saturday's attack on a restaurant popular with Westerners in central Djibouti, local media said on Sunday.
The terror cell broken up on Friday by Spanish and Moroccan security forces was among the most active in Europe, the Spanish interior minister has said.
The FBI has praised Spain's police force for helping the US to prevent potential terrorist attacks on European cities, including an Al-Qaeda plan to deliver explosives by using drones.
A terrorist video demanding the "divine punishment" of the Spanish policemen who last month arrested eight terror suspects in Spain's African enclave of Ceuta has led the Spanish government to open an investigation.
Spanish security forces have broken up a network linked to Al-Qaeda and arrested eight suspects in raids early on Friday morning in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in north Africa, according to government reports.
