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The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling that migrants who cross border fences which are still outside European Union territory have ‘rights as refugees’ – meaning Spanish authorities will no longer be allowed to return illegal immigrants to Morocco who storm border fences at the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Red Cross says it has tended to 186 migrants who stormed a pedestrian border post to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.

MADRID (AP) — The Red Cross says that 19 migrants have arrived to Spain’s southeastern coast in two small boats.

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Red Cross says 14 migrants were treated for injuries suffered when they and some 50 others stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.

Attempts by migrants to break through the border into the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are becoming increasingly violent, the country’s security minister has warned.

Border violations at Ceuta and Melilla, autonomous port cities on the North African coast which have been Spanish for hundreds of years, have tripled over the past month following Moroccan threats to terminate security co-operation.

Some 300 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, authorities said, days after hundreds more forced their way over the frontier.

MADRID (AP) – The local Red Cross says an emergency team is assisting more than 300 migrants who crossed the fence surrounding Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in North Africa early Friday.

The Spanish government has released a new report claiming members of Islamic State could be targeting coastal resort towns to carry out large-scale massacres of tourists.

Footage has emerged of the “extremely violent and organised” attempt by 1,100 African migrants to break into the Spanish enclave Ceuta on Sunday.

Madrid (AFP) – More than 1,000 migrants tried to jump a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday in a violent assault that saw one officer lose an eye, local authorities said.

The young women married to two of the Islamic State’s most notorious executioners are arrested while trying to sneak into Europe after their husbands’ demise.

Around 400 migrants stormed the 20-foot high barrier between Morroco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta early Friday morning leading to over a hundred injuries.

About 220 African migrants forced their way through a barbed wire fence into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, clashing with Spanish police who tried to prevent them from crossing the border with Morocco.

President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Jeb Bush (remember him?) have declared with one voice: America doesn’t need border walls. Meanwhile, around the rest of the Western world, walls are springing up in order to defend the sovereignty of nation states.

Aided by Moroccan police, Spanish counterterrorism units broke up a jihadist cell in North Africa Tuesday, arresting four suspected members of the cell including a former Guantanamo inmate, wanted for recruiting terrorists for the Islamic State. According to separate statements

Hundreds of migrants stormed Spain’s border with Morocco at Ceuta early on Christmas Day. Two drowned and over 100 were intercepted, but many more reportedly reached Spanish territory. The storming of the Spanish border in the north of Ceuta took