Greek Coast Guard

The European Commission never called for joint Greek and Turkish coast guard patrols in the Aegean, but simply for more effective guarding of Greek and Turkish maritime borders, sources of the European Commission in Athens said on Friday. The same...

Another child refugee passed away when his parents attempted to make the dangerous journey from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesvos, in order to escape the war and conflict in the Middle East and travel to a northern European...

The body of a young child was detected ashore the East Aegean Island of Kos, on Sunday. Members of the Greek Coast Guard found a girl's corpse in the coastal region of Lampi on the island of Kos on Sunday morning, according to a report by the...

Greek Coast Guard rescued a 18-year old woman with paraplegia along with 42 other refugees, on Friday, mostly from Syria, in the sea region off the coasts of Mytilene, Lesvos island, Greece. The rescuers also managed to collect the girl's...

Greek authorities warned that the arrivals of refugees and migrants in Lesvos, the island which has borne the brunt of the refugee crisis and where numbers reached new records in September, has still not peaked. According to new data released...

The Greek Coast Guard conducted a rescue operation off the coast of the South East Aegean island of Rhodes after a boat carrying 70 migrants and refugees capsized on Monday, the Associated Press reports. None of the passengers were reported injured. The...

Another tragic incident involving war-torn migrants trying to make it to Greece took place off the Greek islet of Farmakonisi early Sunday morning,  September 13. A boat, carrying around 100 people aboard capsized, resulting in the death of 34 refugees,...

Approximately 4,500 migrants and refugees that were on the East Aegean island of Lesvos will arrive at the port of Piraeus during Thursday according to the Athens Macedonian News Agency. The Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ship is scheduled to arrive...

A Bolivian-flagged cargo ship was escorted to Heraklion port, Crete, on Tuesday night around 4:30 am after a container with an unknown quantity of undeclared weapons was discovered on board during a Greek coast guard inspection. The ship "Hadat 1" had...

Greece's coast guard rescued close to 2,500 refugees and migrants in the eastern Aegean Sea over three days. In a total of 70 search and rescue operations, Greek coastal authorities picked up 2,492 people from the sea. The operations took place...