The Drina River on the Bosnian-Serbian border is a bottleneck on the busy Balkan route. Some locals help migrants where they ...

Turkish and new Syrian government forces are are attacking the Kurds who have been guarding thousands of ISIS prisoners for ...

Serbia lies on the so-called Balkan land route of migration, where people smugglers often facilitate illegal border crossings for people seeking to reach Western Europe. Migrants come to Serbia ...

The Balkan migration route has overtaken the Central Mediterranean route for numbers of irregular border crossings "We were driving up the hill on a single track road, and the police car was ...

Most migrants arrive from Greece and Bulgaria, with many using Bosnia-Herzegovina as a transit country before continuing their journey toward the European Union. During the registration process, many ...

Despite increased arrests of smugglers along the Balkan Route, criminal networks have grown more efficient and organised, allowing migrants to travel from Istanbul to Trieste, Italy, in just one ...

His anti-migrant message helped him win two elections ... In general, sympathy for the plight of those coming up the Balkan Route appears to have declined. People are protesting against asylum ...

Although the Balkan route was closed off in 2016, about 50,000 migrants, mainly from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco and Syria, passed through Bosnia in 2019. Some 6,000 remain stranded in ...

but the deal unravelled when Austria objected that Bulgaria and Romania were failing to handle a steep rise in migrants arriving through the Western Balkan route. “After ‘Schengen Air ...

The Hungarian PM's chief homeland security advisor also noted he Hungarian government is preparing to sue the Court of ...

Thousands of people from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Africa annually use the so-called Balkan route, which runs via Turkey, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia, to reach ...