After risking his life to get out of Afghanistan, Jamshid is out of luck -- he arrived in Greece just as Balkan states further north shut their doors to Afghan nationals. Now he and hundreds of fellow ...

GENEVA, Aug 24 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has been helping refugees and migrants amid chaotic scenes in the past few days at the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of ...

After a violent day at the border between Greece and Macedonia, as rain fell on camps filled with tens of thousands of migrants, an uneasy tension permeated both sides of the barbed wire fence. And ...

Some 2,000 migrants began crossing into Macedonia on Thursday in freezing temperatures as the country conditionally reopened its border with Greece after closing it temporarily. "The border crossing ...

Border authorities in FYR Macedonia have been struggling to cope with the large numbers of people trying to cross the border, and on Friday and Saturday temporarily sealed the border. UNHCR has, in ...

Macedonia has introduced strict border controls, saying it's trying to separate economic migrants from refugees fleeing war. The result is thousands of asylum seekers who are now stranded in Greece, a ...

As thousands of migrants wait to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia, the U.N. warns that Europe is "on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis." Macedonian authorities closed ...

Hundreds of mostly-Syrian refugees seeking better life in western Europe arrived Saturday at the Greek-Macedonian border where some 2,000 others are stranded in no-man's land after being stopped by ...

IDOMENI, Greece — Macedonia closed its border to Afghan migrants early Sunday, Greek police said, slowing the admission of refugees to a trickle and leaving a growing bottleneck of people stuck at ...

The police official said the migrants would be taken to Athens on buses and will be accommodated in migration centers before being sent back to their home countries. Greekpolice started removing ...