Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth, according to a ...

An overloaded boat of refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe, as seen from the deck of an Italian Coastguard ship, in the Mediterranean Sea. (UNHCR/Alfredo D’Amato) Migrants who risk their lives ...

LA LOUZA — About 30 kilometers north of the Tunisian city of Sfax, the entrance to the small fishing port of La Louza offers a singular spectacle: dozens of crushed or holed metal boats are piled up ...

Hundreds of migrants may be missing at sea or feared dead following reports of multiple deadly shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean in recent days, the UN's migration agency warned on Monday. The ...

ROME (AP) — Bodies washing ashore day after day. Phone calls from relatives going unanswered. Migrants’ tents abandoned overnight. Today in History: May 27, mafia bombing in Florence kills 5, destroys ...

FILE - In this May 25, 2016 file photo made available by the Italian Navy, people try to jump in the water right before their boat overturns off the Libyan coast. Over 700 migrants are feared dead in ...

Migrants and refugees from Africa sailing adrift on an overcrowded rubber boat, receive life jackets from aid workers of the Spanish NGO Aita Mary in the Mediterranean Sea, about 103 miles (165 km) ...

Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard opened fire on a humanitarian rescue ship Monday after it rescued about 90 migrants in the Mediterranean.

At least 27 people have died after two boats carrying migrants sunk off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday, according to state broadcaster Tunisia TV. The vessels were carrying Africans from ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they carried out attacks against dozens of targets in Israel in retaliation for the latter's biggest attacks ever against Iran.