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...

An Argentine judge on Tuesday seized a property belonging to a former Iranian diplomat who is sought on charges related to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. The judicial order stems from a million-dollar lawsuit for damages by a survivor of the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 others, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told Reuters. Argentina has formally accused Iran of masterminding the attack and is seeking the arrest of high-ranking Iranian government...

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...

MEXICO CITY - The family of a student who survived a Colombian military raid on a rebel camp says she is returning to Mexico. Maria Alvarez says her niece Lucia Morett will return to Mexico on Wednesday. Morett has been exiled in Nicaragua since Colombia's March 1 cross-border attack on the rebel camp in Ecuador. She had feared prosecution in Mexico for having ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The attack killed a top FARC commander and 24 others,...

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...

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Former Argentine officials accused of blocking the investigation into the AMIA bombing will testify before a federal judge. Ex-president Carlos Menem is among seven ex-officials who are being called on to testify in the coming days by Ariel Lijo. Others among the seven former officials on Lijo’s list are intelligence service office head Hugo Anzorregui and the judge in charge of the case, Juan Jose Galeano. Lijo is trying to find out if the officials backed away...

The new commander of the Colombian army, general Óscar González, assured yesterday that its commitment is to apply drastic sanctions to the military who incur crimes like forced disappearances or extrajudicial executions, denunciation that the position to the previous military commandant cost, Mario Montoya. The guerrilla of the CRAF celebrated Monday in an official notice the destitution of the 27 Colombian military. "The public knowledge of these facts is a triumph of the...

The Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe, ordered the new commander of the Army, General Óscar González, to capture the maximum heads of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (the FARC ) and recognized criminal. "That the arms of the Republic arrive fast at Briceño (Jorge) that is known with the alias of ' Jojoy' Monkey, that the arms of the Republic arrive fast at the other terrorist: to White (Alfonso, maximum leader of the FARC ) and to all its partisans ",...

UNITED NATIONS - Argentine President Cristina Fernández asked Iran on Tuesday to hand over several citizens suspected of planning the deadly 1994 bombing of an Argentine Jewish center, so they can face a local trial. "I would ask the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with international law... accept that Argentine justice can put on trial... those citizens who have been accused," Fernández told the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Argentina has asked for...