Spanish police arrested a man at Madrid's Barajas airport on Sunday who was attempting to join the Daesh terror group in war-torn Syria.

Spain's Interior Ministry said the suspect was detained by authorities in Jordan, where he was attempting to cross into Syria, and then handed over to Spain's Civil Guard for arrest.

The suspect is a Spanish citizen who lives on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands archipelago.

The suspect had been under police surveillance since 2014 when police detected that after he had "consumed propaganda from the [Daesh] terrorist group which had led him to be willing to travel and join their ranks."

The suspect had already tried to enter Syria by travelling to Turkey in July but Turkish authorities arrested him and sent him back to Spain, according to Spanish police. He then planned to make a second attempt to reach Syria by traveling to Jordan earlier this month.

Spain police had arrested two Morrocan people suspected of being members of Daesh terror group in a counter-terror operation which was launched in Barcelona and Madrid on November 19.

Spanish police have arrested 164 individuals suspected of forming part of Daesh since 2015.