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Greek authorities on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Iranian national and a 42-year-old from Kazakhstan, on the basis of international warrants issued against them. The Iranian was arrested in Athens by Attica Security Police organized crime officers, on the basis of...

A major operation by the Attica Security Police Organized Crime Squad was underway on Friday to dismantle a network of migrant traffickers illegally smuggling people into Greece from Turkey and from there by boat to Italy and other European...

Huma rights groups and organized crime experts are expressing rising alarm at the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees — many of them women and children — heading into Albania from Greece, now that the main Balkans route...

The United Nations refugee agency and U.N. children's fund are setting up 20 centers to support and protect children and families fleeing war and persecution as they move across Europe’s well-worn migration routes. The so-called Blue Dot hubs are intended...

Ways to strengthen Greek –Turkish cooperation in order to reduce the flow of refugees and migrants, as well as efforts to better combat migrant trafficking were discussed at a second meeting of the Greek-Turkish joint working group, which convened...

Twelve people were arrested on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos by police as suspected members of a criminal gang that supplied forged travel documents to third country nationals landing on several Greek islands from Turkey amid the ongoing...

As migrants continue to die trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa, Europe says it wants to stem the flow by targeting the people smugglers. Experts, however, say such action would be difficult because of the vast web...

Greek and European authorities announced on Tuesday that a migrant-trafficking ring bringing mainly Syrian irregular migrants to Greece via Turkey had been uncovered with the assistance and support of Europol, leading to 16 arrests. Based on their investigation,...

The need to address the migration phenomenon with decisive and coordinated European action underlined the Commissioner for Immigration, Citizenship and Internal Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos. Addressing the First European Forum for Migration, the Greek Commissioner stressed the importance of civil...

The Hellenic Coast Guard announced earlier today it had recovered the bodies of a man and a young boy around 10 years old, part of a group of over 30 people onboard a vessel that was capsized as it was...