Spain Arrests 7 Accused of Recruiting Women for ISIL

Spanish and Moroccan police arrested seven people in a joint swoop on efforts to recruit women to go to Syria and Iraq to support the ISIL Takfiri group, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

Four women and a man were arrested in Barcelona and the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and two men were detained in the Moroccan town of Fnideq, close to Ceuta, as part of the operation, the ministry said in a statement, Reuters reported.

It said the seven were accused of forming a network to find, recruit and send women to Syria and Iraq on behalf of the terrorist group.

In September, Spanish police arrested nine people suspected of belonging to a militant cell linked to ISIL in Melilla, on the Northern coast of Africa.