Greece

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed six female Afghan judges and legislators who who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took over in August, to his office on Friday. The women met with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou last week. The women, three...

Arezu, a young Afghan refugee living on the island of Lesvos, Greece, was awarded a scholarship to study in Boston recently. The 12-year-old girl fled Afghanistan with her family when she was just seven years old. Her mother, Mariam, was...

An Afghan woman died at the Moria migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Saturday, after reportedly being stabbed by another woman. According to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency, the 23-year-old was rushed to the camp’s medical center,...

A 16-year-old Afghan teenager was stabbed and killed early Wednesday morning by a 20-year-old Afghan man a short distance from the north gate of the Moria Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the Greek island of Lesvos. The 16-year-old was...

A refugee and migrant camp in Malakasa, Attica was quarantined on Sunday morning according to Greek authorities. The decision was taken after a 53-year old Afghan national, tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. The patient was transferred to a hospital in...

One person was killed and at least one other was injured on Thursday during a violent clash between rival migrant groups in the center of Athens. The incident occurred in broad daylight on Menandrou Street, in a busy part of...

  An Afghan national who was caught carrying dozens of detonators when detained for not paying a restaurant bill has been charged with illegal possession of explosives, the Greek authorities announced on Monday. According to a police announcement, the foreign national...

One person has been killed while three others have sustained injuries in a clash among 10 Afghan migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos. Greek police say that the dead person; an Afghan migrant, was known to them. He was...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke on Friday with the mother of an 11-year-old Afghan boy whose house was pelted with stones by unknown assailants early this morning. The boy had been chosen by lot to be his school's flag-bearer in...

The mother of the 11-year-old Afghan student Amir offered chilling details of the racist attack to their house in the early morning hours of Friday. "The stones were thrown non-stop, I said we're going to die today," Amir's mother, Arizou...

Racists attacked the house of the Afghan student who took part in an ‘OXI Day’ Parade in Athens on October 28. 11 year old Amir and his family were shaken but unhurt from the attack in the Dafni neighbourhood. According to...

The Greek ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the curious -and potentially racist- incident of an 11-year-old Afghan student who was evidently denied to carry the Greek flag in his student parade, despite being drawn to do...

A group of Afghani nationals in Lesvos started a hunger strike on Friday, requesting that the Greek government grants them asylum in the country, or else be allowed to travel to another European city. The migrants, who have been staying...

Amir; an 11-year-old refugee boy from Afghanistan, will carry the Greek flag during the annual school parade to commemorate the October 28, 1940 anniversary of Greece’s refusal to ally with the Italian Axis powers in World War II, known...

Dozens of Afghan migrants and supporting activist groups marched in Athens on Tuesday demanding better treatment, and a stop to deportation back to Turkey of those who are not granted asylum. Men, women and children carrying placards demanded equal rights...