Syria

Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal asylum seekers from Greece as it has agreed with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, says a EurActiv report. The returns of migrants who crossed to Greece...

After receiving the all-clear from Germany, the family of an 11-year-old Syrian refugee suffering from cancer have been allowed to join him in Munich, where he is undergoing treatment. Rami's mother, brothers and his cousin will leave on a...

The mother of the Syrian boy who is suffering from cancer and is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant said on Monday she’s hopeful she will be allowed to go to Germany along with the rest of...

Greece’s government body that manages the refugee crisis has been mobilized after it emerged that the family of a 7-year-old Syrian boy who is hospitalized in Germany and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant may be among the thousands...

Refugees in Idomeni on Thursday have their eyes turned to the critical EU summit which they hope will give a solution to their problem. "I expect the EU summit to offer us the opportunity to live with dignity and claim...

Greece awaits the agreement on refugee flow between the European Union and Turkey at the summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. The draft plan that was presented by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk to EU leaders...

A Bulgarian man who lives close to the Turkish border has been patrolling the area on his spare time in order to stop migrants who enter his country illegally and boasts 25 arrests. Dinko Valev patrols the border riding his...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday had phone contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They discussed the regional developments, the refugees issue as well as the economic and energy relations between the two countries with particular focus on the conflict...

Syrian and Iraqi war refugees are sleeping by railroad tracks in northern Greece hoping to be allowed to travel onward to Germany and other northern EU countries. Seventy-three years ago, these tracks were traversed by another group heading to...

The situation in Idomeni continues to be exasperating as thousands of refugees and migrants are trapped at the borders since no one is allowed to pass. Moreover the heavy rain that fell on Monday night made things worse causing further...