Brussels ISIL terror cell

A 20-year-old Bulgarian is among those arrested in Belgium on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. According to local media, the Bulgarian's name is Sergey, the last name is not disclosed.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed 130 people

Dutch authorities detained two suspected jihadist fighters on July 3 after they returned from Turkey where they had been sentenced for terror-related activities, prosecutors said.

Belgian police arrested a Spanish man suspected of recruiting for the Islamic State group and planning attacks in Belgium, in a raid near Brussels airport on Wednesday, officials said, The Local writes.
 
Officers, acting on a request from Madrid, swooped on the man's home in the city's Zavantem district, Belgian prosecutors said.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) claimed responsibility for Thursday's vehicle attack in central Barcelona through it's Amaq news agency. At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured after a van rammed into pedestrians at speed.

A secretive Isis unit that trained the perpetrators of the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks has been teaching British fighters to attack targets in the UK, according to a fighter captured by Kurdish forces in Syria.

Four people have been arrested and an arms cache found after overnight terror raids in Brussels linked to a bikers' club called the Kamikaze Riders, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, according to AFP. 

"During one of the house searches, various weapons were found. In all, four persons were arrested and taken in for questioning," prosecutors said in a statement.

Romanian prosecutors on Thursday detained a 39-year-old man suspected of links with the Islamist radicals who orchestrated the November 13, 2015 suicide bombings and mass shootings in Paris that killed 130 and wounded 368.

Spanish police arrested eight people and raided 12 properties in Barcelona, in an operation against suspected Islamist militants carried out in conjunction with Belgian police, police said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

The Belgium police raided eight houses in the area of Brussels under the wider counter-terrorist operation. The federal prosecutors announced that these investigations are not connected with the November 2015 attacks in Paris with the 130 victims or the attacks of last March with the 32 victims.