Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary

He was detained in the southeastern port city of Almeria

A member of the Islamic State (ID) group, a former London rapper, has been arrested in Spain, according to a French source. Spanish police say Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary is "one of the most wanted jihadists in Europe", BTA reported.

Turkey has put a travel ban to Turkey on 15,000 suspected foreign fighters heading to Syria and Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said on July 15, as Ankara ramps up measures to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threat. 

“Jihadi John” was allegedly part of a network connected to Islamist terrorists convicted for attempting to set off a bomb in 2005 in the London Underground, according to the British government.