Moroccan police have arrested eight people suspected of links to the Islamic State jihadist group, the state MAP news agency announced late on Thursday, quoting the interior ministry
The eight-member cell smashed by police "ensured the despatch of dozens of foreign fighters... in coordination with elements active on the border between Turkey and Syria," said an interior ministry statement cited by MAP.
The recruits were tasked with "carrying out suicide car bomb operations in Iraq and Syria" for the extremist group, the statement added.
A unit formed in March as part of the kingdom's counterterrorism push, Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, carried out the arrests, according to the statement.
Morocco claims to dismantled dozens of alleged IS-linked cells this year and at the beginning of July announced the arrest of nine alleged IS proselytizers.
Some 2,000 Moroccans are estimated to be fighting with IS in Iraq and Syria, according to the UK-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
