Tripoli (AFP) - When young Moroccan Rachid paid $1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead in a Libyan detention centre. Just before the 25-year-old was set to leave Libya, local authorities carried out a raid in Garabulli, about 60...

The Greek coastguard on Monday said it had discovered over 300 refugees hidden in a yacht that ran aground near the island of Lesbos. "The coastguard found and rescued 345 refugees," the agency said, adding that the yacht was discovered on Tsonia beach in the northeast of the island....

Just two days after resolving a coalition row over how to handle a record influx of refugees, Germany's ruling parties are embroiled in another spat over whether to limit the asylum rights of refugees from Syria. The government was forced to clarify on Friday that its asylum policy for refugees...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian teenage girl was kidnapped early Saturday by a Lebanese man from her refugee camp of in Bekaa Valley, activists said. Ali Abu Sweid, an armed militant, has kidnapped Fatema al Hamad, 14, from Ali Helal refugee camp in Zahle in front of her mother and brother,...