Lucía Abellán

The three Spaniards and one Moroccan traveled to the war-torn country in 2014, and have since ended up in a Kurdish-run detention center with 17 minors under their care

Growing political uncertainty in the United Kingdom has pushed acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call his ministers to an extraordinary meeting this Thursday

Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Romania and Luxembourg are willing to welcome some of the 138 people who have been on board a rescue ship for two weeks

Interior ministry confirms contact with Brussels to find safe port for Spanish rescue ship with 151 aboard

Madrid holds US tipped off London about the ship, which was bound for Syria in breach of EU sanctions

Josep Borrell will be the new diplomatic chief, although Madrid had been hoping to place a social-democrat in the EU Commission presidency

A working group concluded that the detention of three of the defendants in the Supreme Court trial was “arbitrary,” and that the illegal referendum was within Spanish law

The left-wing group took 32% of the vote, while the conservative Popular Party managed just 20% and far-right Vox gained its own MEPs for the first time

The American embassy in Madrid has informally complained that the move to pull the ‘Méndez Núñez’ from a combat group in the Persian Gulf was communicated through military channels, not diplomatic ones

Leopoldo López, who has taken refuge at the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Caracas, gives Madrid an unexpected new role in the ongoing crisis

Leopoldo López’s move poses a diplomatic problem for Spain, which, despite recognizing Guaidó as acting president, has not broken ties with the Maduro government

Josep Borrell accused his interviewer of ignorance and bias and briefly walked away from the set

The Mexican president has sent a letter to King Felipe VI arguing that saying sorry is the only way to achieve complete reconciliation between both countries

Group includes experts from National Security Department and seeks to identify cyberterrorism threats

The agreement sets out stricter rules to determine the fiscal residency of individuals and businesses

The contingency plan underscores that concessions will depend on securing similar treatment for Spaniards living and working in the UK

The Foreign Ministry has sent a letter to London complaining about a scheme that involves land reclamation in disputed waters

Sea rescue services will be able to return some migrants to Moroccan ports instead of taking them to Spanish ones

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska expressed veiled criticism for Italy and Malta – who would benefit most from the initiative – for not doing their part

“This is not a retreat. We are under enormous migratory pressure,” says an Interior Ministry source

The agreement will guarantee the chance for Spaniards and Britons to participate in, and run for, the municipal elections due to be held in May in their adoptive countries

Madrid has drafted a decree with contingency plans in the event of the United Kingdom crashing out of the European Union with no deal

Madrid will launch a battery of measures in January aimed at softening the effects of the United Kingdom crashing out of the European Union in March without a deal

The first comprehensive plan in five years is seeking to boost Spanish investment in the continent

London says complaint is over the incursion into Gibraltarian waters, which Spain does not recognize

The four Memorandums of Understanding are aimed at reducing inequality between the Rock and its Spanish neighbor during the Brexit transition period

Pedro Sánchez says the deal gives Madrid a stronger position to negotiate over the British Overseas Territory