In recent days, a migration surge at Ceuta – the EU's only African land border – has grabbed attention, yet the underreported US-Israel-Morocco alliance and their hostility toward Spain, which has condemned the genocide in Gaza, suggest Madrid's foreign policy now carries geopolitical consequences as Morocco deepens military ties with Israel.

US lawmakers are pushing for Polisario terror designation as Washington deepens ties with Morocco.

Spain steps up diplomatic pressure on Morocco after a record number of refugees reached Ceuta, a tiny Spanish territory in North Africa, amid political tensions between the two countries over Western Sahara.

Morocco says it would deport 141 refugees who were arrested as they tried to storm a border fence with the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

A local government spokesman said the refugees scaled two entry points in the six-meter-high wall that encircles Ceuta.

The Russian embassy in Madrid says Moscow has withdrawn a request for its naval fleet to refuel in the Spanish port of Ceuta.

Spanish police have discovered a young Ivorian boy smuggled in a suitcase at the Ceuta border crossing.