Moroccan Interior Ministry said Thursday it dismantled a cell whose members were recruiting Moroccan and foreign fighters to send them to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, as well as providing them with financial support.
In a statement, the ministry said the nine cell members were active in the north and central of Morocco, and were planning to carrying out sabotage acts with guns and explosives inside the country.
The cell, it added, sent one of its members to one of ISIL's camps to train on bomb making.
The ministry said close cooperation between Moroccan and Spanish intelligence services lead to the capture of cell members, some of them already took part in "barbaric" operations in Syria and Iraq.