Evros River

As Greece completed a 10.5-kilometer (6.5 miles) long fence on its border with Turkey along the Evros River in a bid to keep out seemingly endless waves of illegal immigrants, a small boat carrying an overload of Iraqis fleeing...

Greece has finished construction of a fence along the 12.5-km (8-mile) stretch of its land border with Turkey to curb illegal migration, the Athens News Agency said citing company-contractor of the project. The construction of the razor-wire-topped 13-foot-tall fence took...

The Greek coast guard on Friday detained 90 migrants, among them thirteen children, off the eastern Aegean coast, radio reports said. Officials were alerted to a vessel ferrying 36 illegal immigrants, among them six woman and six children, near the...

Greek authorities say an illegal immigrant has died while trying to enter Greece from Turkey using a swollen river in freezing weather. Police said Wednesday say that the man, who was in his 20s, was found near the border village...

Greek authorities say they will start work next month on a 10-kilometre fence on the country's border with Turkey to deter waves of illegal immigration. Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis said on Monday that the border fence is expected to...

Authorities say they have rescued 11 immigrants stranded in the middle of a flood-swollen river after they tried to illegally enter Greece from Turkey. A police statement Monday said the 11 Algerian men were taken to a hospital where one...

Greek police on Tuesday recovered the bodies of three illegal immigrants, among them a 12-year-old boy and his mother, who froze to death while trying to cross the river that marks the country's northern border with Turkey. The bodies of...