Libya

The United Nations refugee agency reports deaths are spiking as refugees and migrants cross the Mediterranean Sea in record numbers in a desperate bid to reach European countries. The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 300,000 refugees and migrants have...

The European Union will use submarines, warships, drones and helicopters in an operation to gather intelligence on gangs who smuggle thousands of asylum-seekers to Europe from Libya, officials said on Monday. EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg...

Italy's coast guard said it coordinated the rescue of more than 4,200 migrants off Libya’s coast while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea since Friday. In some of the most intense Mediterranean migrant traffic of the year, a total of...

Libyan air force bombed a Greek oil tanker off the Lybian coast on Sunday, injuring some of its crew members and damaging a large part of the vessel, said a national army source. A Libyan air force fighter jet attacked...

Seven illegal migrants were found dead while another nine were rescued by members of the Turkish coast guard, after they were spotted east of the Greek island Symi, near Rhodes, on Monday. Authorities are currently investigating the area in search...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias underlined the geopolitical importance of Greece in the meeting of Med Group diplomats. Mr. Kotzias underlined that a possible Greek economic collapse would have negative results in the entire region. As he argued, Greece’s destabilization at...

  A Greek oil tanker with a Liberian flag was attacked by an unidentified military aircraft in a Libyan port. A 29-year-old Greek crewman was killed and two other crew members were injured. The Operations Center Headquarters of the Greek Coast...

Greek ferry boat "Elyros" has been sent to Libya to serve as a shelter for the Libyan government, which was forced to leave the country due to the civil war. After Tripoli and Benghazi were seized by Islamists, the Parliament members fled. They...

AP - A Greek navy frigate carrying embassy staff and nearly 200 people from Greece, China and other countries evacuated from the conflict in Libya returned early Saturday to a port near Athens. Passengers on the frigate Salamis described a...

The Greek Navy frigate ''Salamis'' completed its mission successfully this morning, August 1. The Hellenic Navy ship evacuated 186 Greek and foreign nationals from Libya and is transporting them back safely. The Embassy of Greece in Tripoli, Libya, had requested...