The Latest Breaking News from Lesbos

Syrian swimmer Sara Mardini and several other foreign and Greek refugee rescue workers are on trial in Lesbos.

Lesbos trial involving 24 aid workers could have a chilling effect on humanitarian efforts in Europe, critics say.

Kerryman Sean Binder said his arrest for ‘a small act of kindness’ is shocking.

Campaigners hope overturning of Akif Rasuli’s 50-year sentence will be ‘first victory’ for criminalised migrants in Greek jails

Türkiye’s foreign minister on Tuesday again threatened to “take action” against Greece if it continues to arm its Aegean islands which Ankara says should remain demilitarized in line with international treaties. Mevlut Cavusoglu’s comments follow reports of military exercises by Greece on the Aegean islands of Rhodes and Lesbos. Turkish…

Two separate dinghies came into trouble near islands of Lesbos and Kythira

‘We could see people climbing up those rocks to try and save themselves’, said one Kythira resident

At least fifteen migrants have died after their dinghy sank off the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos amid dangerously high winds, with another twenty said to be missing

Residents of a Greek island pulled shipwrecked migrants to safety up steep cliffs in dramatic rescues after two boats sank in Greek waters, leaving at least 17 people dead and dozens still missing. The coast guard said 16 of the bodies were of young African women while one was a…

At least 18 people, most of them women, died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, the country's coastguard said, in the second maritime disaster involving migrants in the Aegean Sea in under a day.

Fire Service and municipal crews dug firebreaks outside evacuated villages on the Greek island of Lesbos early Monday, halting a wildfire that had threatened scores of homes, authorities said. The overnight work, using excavators and other heavy machinery, took place before six water-dropping planes returned to the southern coast of…