A man suspected of links to Islamic State groups is arrested during an anti-extremist police operation in Sabadell on April 8, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
The arrests were carried out in the eastern cities of Valencia and Alicante and in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, the police said in a statement.
"Four of those arrested are Spanish nationals of Syrian, Jordanian and Moroccan origin," it said.
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A Syrian and a Moroccan were also taken into custody, it said.
A police spokesperson later announced a seventh arrest, but did not give the individual's nationality or other details.
The operation was still ongoing.
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The arrests were made in the context of an investigation launched in 2014 into "foreign structures" of Islamic State – which is also called ISIL, ISIS or Daesh – and the Al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, police said.
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