A terrorist trial against 18 suspects accused of membership and involvement in an Islamist group suspected in recent bomb attacks in Spain and Morocco started in Brussels today, a case that will test new Belgian anti-terror laws.

Four suspected Islamic militants arrested in the Canary Islands arrived in Madrid under heavy guard today, an official said.

Interpol has issued notices for four more Moroccans wanted in connection with the March 11 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, the international police organisation said.

AN al-Qaida-linked videotape threatening more attacks against Spain, singles out the incoming Socialist government for its decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.

An al-Qaida videotape threatening more terrorist attacks against Spain singles out the incoming Socialist government for its decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said today.

Police have arrested seven more suspects in the Madrid bombings, court officials said today.

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French security service agents apprehended 13 suspected militants, including one about to flee the country, in a dawn raid today that was launched to track down the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Morocco last year.

The ringleader of last month’s Madrid terror attack was among four suicide bombers who blew themselves up as police prepared to storm their apartment, Spain’s interior minister said today.

Forensic scientists were struggling today to analyse body parts from up to four Madrid bombing suspects who blew themselves up as police prepared to storm their apartment.

A policeman was killed and seven people injured in an explosion during an anti-terrorist operation in a town south of Madrid tonight.

Spanish police investigating the Madrid terrorist bombings tonight cordoned off an area in the southern outskirts of the capital.

A 12-kilo bomb hidden in a bag on a busy high-speed rail line in Spain reignited terrorism fears in a country still traumatised by last month’s Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.

A TUNISIAN who has campaigned for a holy war in Spain was yesterday named as the leader of the Madrid terror bombers.

A Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants today for five people in connection with the Madrid train bombings, and re-arrested a released Moroccan suspect, a court official said in Madrid.

SPAIN’S interior minister named a Moroccan extremist group yesterday as the main focus of the probe into the Madrid terror bombings.

The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week’s Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be Britain, Japan, Italy, or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported in Cairo.

The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week’s Madrid train bombings has called a truce with Spain to give the new government time to withdraw troops from Iraq, a London-based Arabic-language newspaper said.