Greece

Syrian refugees stranded in Greece chanted "no more waiting!" and protested outside the German embassy in Athens against delays in reuniting with their relatives in Germany. About 100 people, among them young children, marched from parliament to the embassy holding...

Ten Syrians were returned to Adana, Turkey on a flight from Greece on Wednesday, in accordance with the EU-Turkey Statement on migration. The group included five men, one woman and four children. One individual in the group had been denied...

Nineteen Syrians who were refused the continuation of asylum status were relocated in accordance with the EU-Turkey agreement. More specifically, six men, three women and 10 children were transferred from the airport of Mytilene to the airport of Adana on...

The civil protection ministry rejected claims made by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday that 10 Syrian refugees who had arrived in Greece were illegally returned to Turkey, saying they were seeking asylum in the EU but never...

Authorities announced on Thursday that the four bodies recovered off of the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos on Wednesday were members of a Syrian family from Aleppo. The family of four, two parents and their two children aged...

Two Syrian nationals have been arrested on Wednesday on the Greek island of Crete, authorities Cretan airport of Irakleio say. The two individuals were attempting to board flights to Italy and Switzerland with forged documents. The man, a 24-year-old was trying...

In 2015 Cyprus granted protection status to 1,600 Syrians -- accounting for 85.5% of all asylum requests filed in the country -- 65 Iraqis (3.6%) and 60 "stateless" persons (3.25%), according to Eurostat. In total Cyprus made positive decisions on...

Honduran authorities announced on Wednesday that they had arrested six Syrian nationals traveling on forged Greek passports, including five who had been trying to reach the United States. According to Reuters, Honduran police said there were no signs of any...

Early Sunday morning, 321 Syrian migrants on the Greek island of Kos boarded the Greek passenger ship that will house refugees currently on the Dodecanese island. Thge island has received 7,000 migrants and refugees this past week. 2,000-2,500 Syrian refugees are scheduled to live in the Eleftherios...

On Sunday, December 15, the Greek authorities arrested four Pakistanis that are members of a criminal organisation. According to the Greek Police, the organisation is specialised on seizing immigrants, smuggling them and keeping them captive until a relative would...

On December 28, 2014, the Norman Atlantic, a passenger ferry, caught fire in the Strait of Otranto in the Adriatic Sea en route from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona, Italy. The Norman Atlantic became one of the deadliest...

The Ancient Greek mosaics of Zeugma in Turkey are a true archaeological treasure that can be admired at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in Gaziantep

Thousands of Greeks living on the Gallipoli peninsula in modern-day Turkey were victims of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of minorities, particularly Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians, in Asia Minor. Credit: Public DomainThousands of Greeks living on the Gallipoli peninsula...

Six speakers of Australia's Parliament approved earlier in the week the nation's first-ever motion for the government to officially acknowledge the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides. The motion's success with the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives is due to the...

Greece is currently talking to officials from Pakistan and Bangladesh in the hopes of arranging a way for migrants from the two countries to return home after a cargo ship they were traveling on docked at Kos Port on...