Sangar and his wife Kanar left Iraqi Kurdistan in hopes of getting better medical care for their children. For months, the family was stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border desperate to reach the EU. This week, they finally arrived in Italy.
The Paris prosecutor's office has received a lawsuit accusing several regional government bodies of failure to provide help in last month's boat wreck in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain.
A 25-year-old man who managed to cross Belarus and Poland died late last month just after reaching Germany. Baxtyar Anwar’s body was returned home to Iraqi Kurdistan for burial on Sunday.
Small groups of journalists have recently been allowed into the restricted border zone on the Polish side of the Poland-Belarus border. The Polish border guard reports fewer crossings, but tensions remain. Meanwhile on Sunday, another death was reported of a mother of five from Iraqi Kurdistan.
The latest planeload of Iraqis who had traveled to Belarus in the hope of making it to Europe took off to northern Iraq from Minsk on Saturday, December 4.
Four Afghans are waiting in France to find out if they might be related to migrants who died in the Channel shipwreck on November 24. The shipwreck claimed the lives of 27 people. So far, just one victim has been identified.
A small boy called Taman is among thousands of migrants at the Polish-Belarus border. Reportedly born with a bone disease, Taman had both his legs amputated in Iraq. Now his family hope to travel to Germany to get help for him.
The body of a young Syrian migrant who drowned in a river was buried on Monday in a small Muslim cemetery in Poland. An Iraqi Kurdish man, who died last month at the border, was also buried after being flown home to Erbil. Meanwhile, despair and tension continue at the border among migrants hoping to cross into the EU.
Migrants in a detention center in Corinth have staged protests after a man in the camp reportedly committed suicide at the weekend. InfoMigrants received messages on Saturday confirming the man's death.
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
At the weekend, a Kurdish man in his fifties from the region of Erbil died in a hospital in Bosnia. He leaves behind a wife and four children who hope to seek asylum in Europe. His death comes a month after a fight at a migrant camp, during which he was "critically injured." Was his death a tragic accident or the result of something more sinister?
Artist und activist Zehra Doan is auctioning of one of her artworks to help fund the migrant rescue missions of NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans.