Spain dismantles a cell of fighting in Iraq and Syria

, according to what the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday.

The ministry said in a statement that "the leader of this cell resides in Spain, after having spent years in Guantanamo prison following his arrest in Afghanistan in 2001."

The Spanish Ministry of Interior announced on 30 of May, that it had revealed a cell in Melilla in northern Morocco for recruiting fighters and sending them to Mali and Libya, as six of its members had been arrested.

In the same context, according to German police and the French Ministry of the Interior, a French man fought in Syria was arrested on Sunday on his return on Saturday to Europe.

In the seventh of June, a judicial source announced the arrest of six men suspected of belonging to a network for recruiting fighters before being sent to Syria.