Samos

Ten children and 16 adults were the victims of another refugee tragedy in the Aegean, this time off the straits of Samos island. A boat carrying an unspecified number of passengers capsized under unknown circumstances off Samos island resulting in at...

An international group of academics will propose for the residents of Greek islands who are found on the front lines of the refugee crisis to be nominated for a nobel prize. Academics from the universities of Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell...

A Turkish captain of a smuggler boat which capsized off the coast of Agathonisi killing three Syrian children under five years of age that were aboard, has been arrested by Greek authorities on the island of Samos. Turkish smugglers are...

Another tragedy involving refugees occurred off the coast of Samos, Greece. Greek Coast Guard officials were patrolling the area close to the Greek island when they spotted the bodies of six refugees. The officials managed to retrieve the bodies of...

A new round of research into US government archives and other sources alleges that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker in Berlin but fled to Argentina, potentially through Greece and the Canary Islands. Ex-CIA officer Bob...

Syrian refugee Ameer Mehtr braved to make the perilous journey from Turkey to the Greek island of Samos swimming, according to an Independent report. Mehtr did not have the funds to pay smugglers to transport him to Greece after his...

Six Turkish jet fighters violated Greek air space between the islands of Fournoi and Ikaria on Tuesday. According to the Greek Air Force, the Turkish warplanes spent about 30 minutes in Greek air space. This is the 78th time Turkish...

An acrimonious argument has started between Greece's coroners association and the Samos Hospital administration over autopsies and issuing of death certificate procedures. Dead bodies of refugees, with those of children among them, pile up at the mortuary of the Samos...

Unfortunately, there is no end to the refugee tragedies unfolding in the Aegean Sea. Early in the morning on Sunday, November 1, a boat carrying around 50 people, crashed against rocks on the coast of the Greek island of...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that migrant deaths on the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe are breaking all previous records. IOM confirmed 3,350 fatalities so far this year, surpassing the record-breaking death toll of 3,279 for all of...