The state of Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey, witnessed great tension between the Syrians and the Turks on Sunday as a result of which the Turkish citizens staged an angry demonstration, calling for the expulsion of the refugees, due to the poisoning of a dog owned by a Turkish family....

 As rescue efforts in the Mediterranean Sea flagged last week, and bodies were found more frequently than survivors from among the more than 500 people missing after an overcrowded fishing trawler sank, the European Commission's president was asked for her thoughts. “It is horrible,...

A court in Cyprus on Friday ordered that two Syrian men remain in police custody for seven days on suspicion of people smuggling after authorities rescued a total 45 Syrian migrants aboard two rickety vessels off the island nation’s southern coast. The decision came after the court heard...

A Greek news website has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday’s deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece, in which more than 500 people are feared drowned after an overcrowded boat carrying as many as 750 migrants went down in international waters....