migrant crisis

Admiral Enrico Credendino said people smuggling groups attacked migrant boats to poach them.

The change to the EU's naval operation marks its transition from a reconnaissance and rescue mission.

Payam Moradi Mirahessari and Farein Vahdani were arrested in Folkestone.

UNHCR says influx of Syrian refugees is biggest migrant crisis since World War II.

More than 2,700 deaths have been reported on the South Mediterranean sea route this year.

Royal Navy Frigate HMS Richmond and HMS Enterprise will search, seize and divert smuggling vessels.

Zerai receives calls from migrants stranded at sea since he gave his number to radio station in 2003.

EXCLUSIVE: Conservative grandee accuses the pro-EU campaign of being based on 'fear'.

Former foreign secretary believes a fractured EU would cause significant problems worldwide

EU wants Turkey to take on a more active role in pursuing people traffickers.

A six-month-old baby and a child aged 3-5 are found drowned off the Aegean island of Kos.

Official estimate based on illegal German border crossings every day.

Eurotunnel services have resumed this morning after Calais terminal break-in.

IBTimes UK speaks to an army translator who has resettled in the UK after being targeted by the Taliban.

Government departments are in frantic discussions with local authorities to work out details of the plan.

Elderly man believed to be oldest asylum seeker arrives in Germany after month-long travel from Afghanistan.

Ahmed al-Junde's journey from war-torn Syria would claim the lives of his cousin and two friends.

Italian authorities clear migrant camp near border town of Ventimiglia, sparking protest.

The family, together after eight months apart, are starting a new life away from the struggles of war.

YouGov poll says voters want to break from Brussels but Survation survey tells a different story.

17 drown, 20 rescued as migrant boat sinks in the Aegean Sea near Kos.

Catherine West said it would be a month before the details emerged of how many refugees would arrive in the UK.

Speaking in German parliament, Merkel told lawmakers a solution to the crisis was far off.

The teenager, believed to be from east Africa, was attended to by paramedics and police.

Refugees arriving in the UK are part of the UN's Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.

The prime minister has said the EU should do more to return migrants who don't have real claims of asylum.

Buildings that used to host Nazi death machine's herb gardens being used as shelter by migrants.

The Liberal Democrat leader made the emotive attack at his party's annual conference in Bournemouth.

Slovakia PM Robert Fico vows to refuse the 802 refugees his country is required to take in under EU plan.

Footage shows French police in riot gear forcibly evict 350 mostly Syrian refugees.