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A five-member IS-linked terror cell has been foiled by Moroccan authorities [Anadolu]
Five suspects with links to IS have been arrested, as part of the country’s anti-extremism crackdown, and ahead of a meeting of world leaders for a UN climate summit.
Morocco security forces say they have uncovered an Islamic State group-linked terror cell, which was plotting attacks in the kingdom, the country’s interior ministry has said.
Five suspects were arrested on Friday in the northern city of Tetouan as part of a wide-ranging anti-IS operation.
According to the statement, the cell had been planning to carry out terrorist attacks aimed at “destabilising the country”.
The would-be militants were in the process of preparing a military training camp in a forest, said the ministry, and were planning to join IS camps in Syria, Iraq or Libya with the intention of waging “jihad” in Morocco.
