By Muhammed Yildiz
RABAT, Morocco (AA) - A Moroccan national Daesh/ISIS terrorist, one of the top leaders of the terror group, was remanded in Italy, Morocco's Internal Intelligence Service announced on Saturday.
The terrorist was arrested in an operation in Italy on Friday following an intelligence shared with Italian counter-terrorism units, said a written statement.
The statement noted that the captured terrorist had been in a senior position in Syria and Iraq, in the regions where the terror group was active for many years.
Through earlier interrogations of Daesh/ISIS terror suspects, the Moroccan intelligence service found out that the terrorist crossed into Europe illegally, it added.