Unwelcome Refugees

The situation for migrants, including asylum seekers, in camps on Greek islands is “explosive” and “on the edge of catastrophe,” the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Thursday. The situation has dramatically worsened over the past 1…

ATHENS (Reuters) - A European human rights watchdog on Thursday slammed living conditions as “horrible” for thousands of asylum seekers in overcrowded Greek camps, including waits spanning several hours for food and toilets and a lack of access to medicine. …

BRUSSELS (AP) The Latest on immigration into Europe (all times local): 11:25 a.m. A top European Union legal adviser says the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland have been breaking EU law by refusing to comply with the bloc's migrant quota scheme. In a lega…

Athens (AFP) - The situation for migrants in camps on Greek islands is "explosive" and "on the edge of catastrophe", the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said Thursday. "The situation of migrants, including asylum seekers, in the Greek Aegea…

Five hundred and two years agoon October 31, 1517Martin Luther publicly posted his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg, Germany, and the Protestant Reformation began. No doubt youve heard this fact beforeits the stuff of ninth-grade history class and the answer…

Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN)They are good at dismay, the Europeans. Their cheek-clutching horror at US President Donald Trump's abandonment of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was worthy of Munch's "The Scream." But to have reacted with surprise at …

We believe that the United States has a special obligation to those who supported or fought alongside American forces, particularly when their plight is so directly tied to American decisions. In the 1970s, at the end of the Vietnam War, the United States bro…

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece should scrap a draft law that threatens to restrict access to protection for asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. Athens is currently struggling with the biggest resurgence in r…

PARIS (Reuters) - An NGO which runs the Mediterranean rescue ship Ocean Viking, with 104 migrants onboard, called on European authorities on Monday to designate a safe disembarkation spot. French association SOS Mediterranean, along with Doctors without Bor…

Music teacher and self-described political dissident Homayoun Zaran fled Iran for Afghanistan six years ago in search of a quieter life. But after crossing the border and arriving in the Afghan city of Herat, he was arrested and jailed as an Iranian spy. Zar…