Lesbos

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendas summoned the Turkish Ambassador to Greece, Burak Özügergin, on Friday to protest the huge numbers of migrants who arrived from Turkish shores to Greece's Lesvos Island on Thursday. According to Greek media reports, Dendias expressed Greece's...

More than 500 asylum seekers landed on Greece's Lesvos on Thursday aboard a total of thirteen boats which crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey. In scenes reminiscent of the 2015 migrant crisis, the asylum seekers, including women and children, arrived...

Turkish authorities seized a total of 330 migrants who were attempting to cross the Aegean Sea and reach European shores on Greece's island of Lesvos, it was made public on Sunday. As Reuters reports, Turkish authorities in the area of...

An ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Nemesis has been discovered in the ruins of an ancient theater in Mytilene, AMNA news agency reported on Thursday. The remains of the temple were found in the south entry passage (párodos in...

The body of a young girl was spotted floating off of the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos on Sunday morning. People saw a body floating near Vatera on Greece's Lesvos Island and called the port authority of the island. Units...

Maritsa Mavrapidou, who was famously photographed in October 2015 with a refugee baby together with two other ladies on the Greek island of Lesvos, has died at the age of 89. "We welcomed refugees because we're descended from refugees, too,"...

The secretary-general of Amnesty International, Kumi Naidoo, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, calling on him to take all necessary measures to improve living conditions at migrant reception centers on the Greek islands. Naidoo, who visited...

Eighteen-year-olds Xenophon Koukoutas and Giannis Svoros accepted the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service last Saturday on behalf of the residents of the entire island of Lesvos, for their "heroic support of refugees fleeing mayhem throughout...

Just a week after a holy cross was destroyed, a new holy cross has been raised at the same location on the Greek island of Lesvos. Leonidas Vorias, a 38 year-old volunteer firefighter and MMA champion, organized the process to...

The director of the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos has accused U.S. magazine Newsweek of reporting "fake news" regarding the situation at the camp which has been labelled as the worst migrant camp in Europe. Following the recent report in...