refugees

There's little room left in the graveyards on this windswept island. Aid workers on Lesbos struggle to bury the growing number of refugees' bodies pulled from the sea. Of the more than a million people who have found safe haven...

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, said on Thursday the warships, now under German command, are ordered into the Aegean Sea to conduct naval patrols to help end the smuggling of migrants between Turkey and Greece. The decision is based...

NATO is to participate in Greece-Turkey maritime surveillance missions in the Aegean Sea to combat illegal people smugglers and stem the migrant inflow. The proposed mission to be discussed at a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday comes after German Chancellor...

Brussels is to put more pressure on Greece to improve conditions for asylum seekers in an effort to make it easier for other EU member states to send migrants back to Greece, says a Financial Times report. According to the...

Analysts at Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm, have warned that the pressure of thousands of migrants and refugees arriving in Greece could push the country out of the euro given the country’s severe economic...

Greece is rushing to complete the setting up of five migrant registration centers and two refugee camps amid violent reactions from local citizens. Only one of the five required migrant registration centers (hotspots) is completed while the Greek government has...

At least 33 migrants drowned on Monday afternoon, when two boats carrying them capsized off İzmir, and Altınoluk coasts in Turkey. The private Dogan news agency says that 11 bodies were found near the Aegean coastal resort of Dikili, a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that better protection at the European Union's external borders in order to maintain the passport-free Schengen zone. Her comments indirectly slammed Greece for not establishing sufficient border controls. "We need to protect our external borders...

Tension broke at a military camp on the island of Kos, where Greek authorities are preparing to establish a refugee hot spot. According to local media, the islanders lit fires and blocked access to the surrounding area. The images shown by...

A large number of refugees have gathered at Idomeni on Thursday waiting to cross to FYROM. According to the police, there are around 2,500 refugees at the camp while 4,500 have already disembarked from the 90 buses that have stopped...