Spanish authorities arrested two Spanish girls, one 19 years old and the other 14, as they tried to cross over from Melilla into Morocco to join a cell of the Islamic State. The Interior Ministry said the girls’ “radicalization, recruitment and later dispatch … were perfectly planned … by a network that operates across north Africa and has as its main goal getting the maximum number of unquestioning combatants.” Spain has arrested over 470 suspected Islamic extremists since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.
