At least 77 migrants likely have drowned in the incident while 20 others were rescued after their boat sank off Syria's coast, having departed from neighbouring Lebanon. The death toll of what is the deadliest shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years is expected to still rise.
Cyprus's Joint Rescue Coordination Center has picked up more than 300 migrants stranded west of Cyprus. The migrants, who were headed for Italy, will be taken to Istanbul.
Five children and a woman have reportedly drowned in the Aegean Sea, while five people remain missing. Turkish authorities have accused Greek officials of pushing the migrants back towards Turkey.
Six people, including two babies, died of dehydration on a migrant boat that arrived on Monday in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. The survivors were in a serious condition.
The death of a Syrian refugee at a detention facility in Lebanon has caused outrage after photos and video allegedly showing his dead body riddled with wounds surfaced. Now, Amnesty International is demanding a civilian trial against his alleged torturers.
Greek authorities confirmed that a total of 61 migrants have reached the Greek island of Crete after at least one child died of unspecified causes while being airlifted to hospital. The group had earlier been rescued by a cargo vessel.
The fate of around 60 Lebanese and Syrian migrants on a sinking fishing boat in the Mediterranean is unknown after contact was lost on Monday. They had reported running out of food and water, and that two young children on board had died.
A young woman and her baby, still wrapped around in her arms, lie at the bottom of the sea after drowning. This is one of the most harrowing discoveries of the recuperation operations off the Lebanese coast last week. Over 30 dead bodies still need to be recovered; they drowned last April after attempting to reach Italian shores.
Survivors and families of the victims of migrant boat that sank off the coast of Lebanon have filed a lawsuit accusing the military of detaining two missing survivors.
A submarine found the remains of at least ten migrants who drowned when their boat sank off northern Lebanon in April with an estimated 30 people on board. The circumstances of the boat's sinking remains disputed. It marks the greatest tragedy involving migrants for Lebanon in recent years.
Search operations for approximately 30 migrants who drowned in April started on Monday off the coasts of Tripoli, in North Lebanon. The search operations are privately financed by the relatives of the victims who raised a collective fund for this purpose.
Syria and Lebanon are about to launch a controversial repatriation program for "tens of thousands" of refugees who fled from war in Syria. Meanwhile, migrants who want to reach Europe continue to make use of the porous borders between the two countries.