Early Wednesday morning a powerful car bomb exploded in front of a police barracks in Burgos, Spain. The attack was blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. There were around 120 people in the barracks and surrounding buildings, a third of whom were children. The Basque Terrorist Group ETA did not call in a warning and therefore the building could not be evacuated. The barracks houses police officers and their families. 46 people have been slightly injured.38 of the injured were treated in...

Police from seven countries arrested 17 people in the island of Curacao Tuesday suspected of involvement in an international drug ring with links to Hizbullah, Dutch authorities said. The group is suspected of having traded in some 2,000 kilograms of cocaine per year, the Dutch prosecution service said in a statement. "The group shipped containers with cocaine from Curacao to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Jordan," it said. "From Venezuela, containers with drugs went to...

The PSNI has arrested a 32-year-old man wanted on terrorism charges in Spain. The man was detained this morning on foot of a European Arrest Warrant and is expected to appear in court later today. Another Spaniard, former ETA leader Inaki de Juana Chaos, is currently fighting extradition from Northern Ireland to Spain on charges of inciting support for terrorism. Source:

MADRID - A Spanish court official says 14 people have gone on trial charged with involvement with Islamic terrorist groups and recruiting extremists to fight in Iraq. Some of the 14 are also accused of helping suspects in the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid to flee Spain. The 14 suspects, mainly from Morocco, were arrested in a series of raids over recent years, mostly in the northeastern region of Catalonia. They are charged with belonging to or collaborating with Islamic terrorism...

Police say they have arrested a Spanish soldier and his girlfriend for making and distributing videos promoting 'jihad,' or holy war, and calling for attacks in Spain. A police statement said the couple detained Tuesday in the southern city of Granada have placed at least 11 videos on the Internet. The clips have been viewed some 2,000 times. The statement identified the man as Christian Peso Ruiz Coello and his Russian girlfriend as Maria Choubina, both aged 24. The statement added that...

Madrid - The Spanish police have arrested at least 11 people in Barcelona and Valencia suspected of forging documents for al Qaeda, the Spanish media reported on Tuesday, citing police sources. The investigation was still open and could be extended to other parts of Spain, although it was still unclear whether all of the detainees were connected to the Islamic militant group, the media said. Police in Barcelona were not immediately able to confirm the reports. Spain suffered Europe`s...

More than 100,000 people marched through Spain's capital and other cities Sunday calling for Israel to announce an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The protest in Madrid was the largest of demonstrations across Europe expressing both support and opposition for the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Protesters filled downtown boulevards carrying banners saying "Peace," "SOS Gaza," placards with the word "Gaza" above a red-stained hand and mock blood-spattered bodies of...

PARIS: French anti-terrorism police on Monday arrested the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, just weeks after capturing his alleged predecessor "Txeroki," the interior ministry said. The suspect was picked up on a street in the village of Gerde in southwest France around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) together with two other ETA suspects. They were carrying revolvers and fake documents. French police moved in on the three men after receiving a tip-off from...

Paris, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Spain's Basque separatist group ETA Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina has been arrested in France, French and Spanish authorities announced on Monday. Aspiazu Rubina, 35, known by alias "Txeroki" or "Cherokee", was captured in Cauterets, a spa and ski resort in the Pyrenees in France, near Spain's autonomous Basque region. An unidentified woman was also detained. Aspiazu Rubina has been the chief of ETA military units for several years. He...

Lima, Oct. 11 - Spain’s government condemned today the attack perpetrated by the narco-terrorism in the Peruvian province of Tayacaja, Huancavelica, that killed 13 soldiers and two civilians. The Spain’s Foreign Affairs and Cooperation ministry stated in a communiqué its rejection to the attack and “its deeply felt condolences to the families of the deceased victims”. In addition, the Spanish ministry expressed grief “to the entire Peruvian...