Greece

Amnesty International has described as "deeply alarming" the Greek government's move to round up and detain irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including those suspected of carrying infectious diseases such as HIV. Those considered vulnerable to such diseases, based on their country...

A young Palestinian refugee on the Greek island of Leros has set up a page called “Learn Greek” on social media to teach the language.

The number of refugees and migrants on Lesvos is now less than 5,000, according to figures released by the Greek Ministry of Migration

The number of migrants and refugees at the Kara Tepe Camp on the Greek island of Lesvos has dropped under 6,000 in the last month.

Greek Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the construction of a new reception center for migrants and refugees on the Greek island of...

The fire that devastated the Moria refugee and migrant camp generated lots of crocodile tears in the EU, yet the grave problem of 13,000 people crowded into a facility created for 3,000 to 4,500 still remains -- just as...

Dozens of migrants, including young children, slept rough in a cemetery on the Greek island of Lesvos on Thursday, after a blaze razed their makeshift camp to the ground, sending them fleeing but with nowhere to go. With no possessions...

More fires broke out late on Wednesday in what was left of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, as the government blames camp residents for starting the fires angered by the lockdown measures and isolation...

Moria, once home to over 12,000 refugees, was completely destroyed by fires  early Wednesday morning. Only meant to house around 2,800 migrants, Moria is notorious for its overcrowded, and some argue unsafe, conditions. Shocking scenes of migrants, including unaccompanied minors,...

Sixty of the 93 hotel facilities provided to asylum-seekers will be closed in 2020, according to Greece's Migration and Asylum Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis, who spoke on the issue on Thursday. Official figures have disclosed that 25,503 refugees and asylum-seekers...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has issued a call for hotels and ships on Greek islands that can be leased to house vulnerable groups of asylum-seekers who might be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The move was approved...

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...

  As Europe grapples with the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, concern is also growing over the living conditions of migrants and asylum-seekers living in camps on the Greek islands, particularly among members of the European Parliament (MEPs). On Friday, the European Parliament...

An unknown number of individuals who are currently living at the Ritsona migrant and refugee camp on the Greek island of Euboea attempted to escape from the camp on Thursday night and Friday morning, breaking the quarantine of the...

The migrant camp at Moria, on the island of Lesvos, the largest in Greece, is a "time bomb" waiting to explode as the coronavirus has spread to the local population, an official from the group Doctors without Borders (MSF)...