migrant crisis

Recent figures revealed the number of refugees arriving by land or sea exceeded a million.

Spending on refugees to surge after more than one million entered the country in 2015.

More than 8,000 specially tailored classes have been created to help them catch up with German students.

From the refugee crisis in Europe to the terror attacks in Paris, a recap of the biggest news stories of 2015.

The Department of Homeland security will deport hundreds of families beginning in 2016.

Volunteers have organised Christmas celebrations for refugee children at shelters around Germany.

UN urges Lebanon to lift work restrictions to ease 'extreme poverty' gripping over 70% of the million migrants.

The perils faced by refugees and migrants along their epic journeys towards the European Union.

At least 13 die as migrant boat sinks off Aegean Sea island of Farmakonissi.

"I would like to ask you all to think about the pain of fathers, mothers and children who are seeking peace."

Twin terror attacks in Paris book-ended a year dominated by the fight against Islamic State in Syria and the resulting exodus of refugees.

International Organisation for Migration say crossings into Europe are four-fold higher than last year.

Eighteen migrants, including 10 children, drown after boat carrying them to Greece sinks off Turkey's coast.

International Migrants Day is marked on 18 December to raise awareness of refugee plight.

Violent protest hit small town in Netherlands as EU leaders discuss migrant crisis in Brussels.

German chancellor promises to 'tangibly' reduce the number of refugees granted asylum.

In November alone 200,000 migrants entered country.

Greek coastguard rescues 26 people from shipwreck that leaves 12 missing and as many dead.

Latest tragedy to hit asylum-seekers seeking to reach Greece raises memories of Aylan Kurdi

Evacuation of migrant camp in Morocco turns into tragedy as two migrants asphyxiate in a cave.

The UN said the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe fell by more than a third in November.

Tensions running high at Idomeni border crossing as Macedonia allows in only Syrians, Afghanis and Iraqis.

The clip shows how easily migrants from the 'Jungle' camp are able to jump aboard passing trucks.

Migrants from Pakistan, Iran, Morocco and other countries have been left stranded.

Iranian migrants staging a hunger strike have sewn their lips shut in protest not being allowed in.

Police said that donations of warm clothes have been distributed ahead of the construction of a "winter hall".

Blast targeted officials aligned with the Libya Dawn alliance, which controls vast swathes western Libya.

People barred from crossing the Greece-Macedonia border protest against a policy of prioritising Syrian refugees over migrants from other countries.

Thousands of people cross Serbia every day to continue their journey to EU countries such as Germany.

Roanoke Mayor David Bowers likens ban to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.