Greek authorities have found a group of Syrian migrants who reportedly had been stranded on an islet in the Evros river for several days. A total of 38 migrants were in the group, and one girl was reported to have died.
Greek police have asked neighboring Turkey to conduct a search and rescue operation to help a group of Syrians stranded in the Evros river. A young girl among the group is reported to have died and another is in a critical condition.
Turkey has claimed that it has rescued a total of 130 migrants over the last 48 hours. It says the migrants had been trying to reach Greek islands in the Aegean and were pushed back by Greece.
A year after the Taliban took over Kabul, a US-trained captain of the Afghan Air Force remains in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, waiting to be granted refugee status.
Dozens of migrants remain missing after their boat sank off the Greek island of Karpathos. Meanwhile in northern Greece, reports are mounting of migrants being shoved back and forth between Greek and Turkish authorities.
Police on Crete last week stopped 22 migrants who were trying to leave the Greek island using forged foreign passports.
The Greek coast guard has rescued 122 migrants near Rhodes. Meanwhile, the organization Alarm Phone reported a growing group of migrants had become stranded at the Evros River crossing.
Five people have been arrested and charged with trying to smuggle nearly 100 migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week.
A Pakistani migrant has reportedly been killed and a Lebanese migrant has lost her unborn child after attacks by migrant gangs in Northern Greece. According to news reports, migrant gangs regularly rob other migrants near the North Macedonian border.
After a report leaked by Spiegel magazine, Germany's foreign minister called in Athens for an investigation into alleged pushbacks by Greece's border patrol that Frontex knew and did nothing about.
The Greek police announced they had dismantled an international crime gang focused on smuggling migrants through the country. Raids took place last week in the capital Athens and more details emerged over the weekend.
Turkey’s defense ministry announced on Sunday it had filmed footage of Greek pushbacks. The news was reported by the Turkish Anadolu Agency.