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Spain sends troops and drones to help in Turkish earthquake rescue effort

Spain to take in hundreds of vulnerable Syrian earthquake survivors left homeless by the disaster

Spain is set to take in over a hundred Syrian survivors whose homes were destroyed by the deadly earthquake that has already claimed over 38,000

19 Feb, 2023 @ 14:15

Lead·National News

Spain to bring back small group of ISIS wives and children staying in squalid Syrian detention camps

Spain to bring back ISIS wives and children staying in squalid Syrian detention camps

SPAIN’S government will bring home a group of Spanish women married to ISIS fighters who are being held in two Syrian detention camps. The repatriation

21 Nov, 2022 @ 15:00

Lead·National News

Couple accused of buying young boy as mother in Spain's Madrid says husband ordered sale to distant relatives

Arrests in Spain’s Madrid and Tenerife as humanitarian aid for Syrian orphans ‘diverted to finance terrorism’

SPANISH police have arrested three men who allegedly used humanitarian aid for Syrian orphans as a cover to finance terrorism. Policía Nacional supported by Europol,

28 Mar, 2021 @ 11:05

Lead·Madrid·National News

REVEALED: How Rifaat Al-Assad brutally ‘plundered Syria’ and spent millions of black cash on property, yachts and a PLANE while setting up businesses on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A former general told investigators: “Rifaat was the superior head of the entire intelligence system...in Syria he was almost God”

23 Sep, 2020 @ 20:45

Gibraltar·Lead·Malaga

Uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad jailed in France as Spain pursues money laundering trial

THE uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is wanted in Spain on money laundering charges, has been jailed for four years by a French

18 Jun, 2020 @ 16:58

Lead·National News

Lone wolf terror suspect in Spain ‘planned to bomb Barcelona-Real Madrid football match using explosive-laden drone’

A SUSPECTED ‘lone wolf’ terrorist had been plotting to bomb a Barcelona versus Real Madrid match using a drone. This is the claim of Spanish

20 May, 2020 @ 16:57

Lead·National News

Royal Marines in Gibraltar detain oil tanker on way to Syria

Fabian Picardo commended the bravery of the marines involved in the operation to detain the vessel

4 Jul, 2019 @ 09:50

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

Police in Spain detain gang accused of financing Al-Qaeda terrorism in Syria

The Europol assisted operation involved more than 350 agents who raided 14 homes and businesses across Spain

19 Jun, 2019 @ 19:25

Crime & Law·Lead

ISIS video threatens tourists in Spain after death of British ‘punk rock jihadi’

The final three minutes of the clip appear to threaten attacks on Barcelona or Madrid similar to those suffered by Paris in 2015

24 May, 2019 @ 14:45

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: ISIS terrorist cuffed in popular British expat hotspot on Spain’s Costa del Sol was ‘ready to attack’ after taking deadly oath

It is the same oath carried out by the majority of the terrorists behind recent attacks across Europe

15 Jan, 2019 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead

JIHAD IT COMING: Spain’s ‘most dangerous terrorist’ facing 7-year-sentence after being snared on Costa del Sol ‘enjoying drugs, alcohol and prostitutes’

He used sites like Youtube to spread beheading videos and highly graphic propaganda videos

11 Jun, 2018 @ 16:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·National News

Former Gibraltar opposition leader blasts Rifaat al-Assad deal as ‘unethical’

Independent MP Marlene Hassan Nahon insisted the government needed to explain the deal

10 May, 2018 @ 17:12

Lead·Politics

Gibraltar government under fire for lack of ‘clarity’ or comment on controversial al-Assad sale

Independent MP Marlene Hassan Nahon insisted the government needed to explain the deal to show it has a ‘moral conscience’, rather than burying it under

9 May, 2018 @ 19:39

Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

‘Butcher of Hama’ and uncle of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad to make MILLIONS from sale of Gibraltar building

A GIBRALTAR office building owned by the uncle of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is being bought in a knock-down deal by a company linked to

25 Apr, 2018 @ 13:05

Business & Finance·Lead·Politics

Moroccan man who financed his terrorist ex-wife in Syria arrested in Malaga

THE ex-husband of a female jihadist on Europe’s most wanted list has been arrested in Malaga. The Moroccan financed his ex-wife, Fadoua Hassad, so she

24 Apr, 2018 @ 17:08

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