- The United Nations forecasts that 3,000 migrants a day – many fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – will pour into the Balkans, trying to reach Western Europe in the next few months.
- Oct. 3, 2013 More than 360 people perish off the Italian island of Lampedusa
- Sept. 10, 2014 About 500 people are feared dead after their ship is rammed near Malta
- Feb. 8-9, 2015 More than 300 people reported missing after four boats become waterlogged off the Libyan coast
- April 14, 2015 As many as 400 people die in a shipwreck
- April 19, 2015 About 800 migrants are believed drowned as a fishing boat sinks near Libya
- Aug. 5, 2015 Some 200 people are feared dead after a boat carrying up to 600 migrants capsizes near Libya
- Aug. 27, 2015 A truck containing the bodies of 71 migrants is discovered in Austria
- Aug. 27, 2015 Two crowded boats carrying as many as 500 people capsize on the Mediterranean; at least 150 bodies are recovered
Migrants from the Turkish coast arrived on an overcrowded dinghy, below, to the Greek island of Lesbos, a popular tourist destination.
Migrants moved a tent, below, at a refugee camp near a train station in Rome where about 165 people from Eritrea were staying temporarily.
Refugees from Syria and Afghanistan on a Turkish highway
Migrants in Croatia
Now more than 4.6 million Syrian refugees abroad, with 2.5 million in Turkey, 1 million in Lebanon.
