Terror cell was recruiting women

Spanish and Moroccan police say they have arrested seven suspected members of a terror network spread across the two countries aimed at recruiting women for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

The Moroccan Interior Ministry said two heads of the group were based in Fnideq, just outside the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, where women were brought from Spain and indoctrinated with jihadi thought.

European authorities have noticed a sharp increase in the recruitment of women from Europe for the Islamic State group in the past year, with at least 100 coming just from France.