March 14, 2016 German anti-immigration party makes gains in local elections amid refugee crisis A nationalist, anti-migration party powered into three German state legislatures in elections Sunday held amid divisions over Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal approach to the refugee crisis.
March 11, 2016 Iraqi man arrested over New Year's sex assaults in Germany Cologne police say a fourth man has been taken into custody after they released a series of photos of people suspected of sexual harassment and assaults in the city on New Year's Eve.
March 8, 2016 Critics blast Europe's draft plan to send some refugees back to Turkey The United Nations and human rights groups voiced deep concerns Tuesday about the European Union's plans to send thousands of migrants back to Turkey amid fears the country cannot properly provide for them.
March 7, 2016 'It was freezing': Growing number of refugees give up on Europe, head home Surkaw Omar and Rebien Abdullah quit their jobs and spent their life savings to reach Europe, only to find crowded asylum camps, hunger and freezing weather.
March 6, 2016 25 migrants drown off Turkish coast At least 25 people drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece on Sunday, while Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the Greek border.
March 4, 2016 Syrians sentenced to prison over death of toddler seen in heartbreaking photo Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the death of 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi and four other people.
March 3, 2016 Iranian refugees sew mouths shut to protest French camp demolition Six Iranian migrants have sewed their mouths shut to protest the mass evictions and destruction of a large swath of a migrant camp in northern France in a desperate bid to bring attention to their plight.
March 2, 2016 Terrorists 'a daily part' of refugee flow into Europe, NATO commander says Violent extremists, criminals and foreign fighters are part of the daily refugee flow into Europe, the top NATO commander in Europe told lawmakers, "masking the movement" of these dangerous elements and heightening the potential for an attack.
February 26, 2016 Christian Children Seized by Norway Reunited With Parents 3 Months Later The Romanian Pentecostal parents who have been separated from their five children by Norway's child protective services were reunited with all of their kids in the same place for the first time since the family's ordeal began in November.
February 26, 2016 Germany says it doesn't know the whereabouts of 130,000 refugees German authorities revealed that they do not know the whereabouts of 130,000 people that entered their country last year, according to a parliament document viewed by AFP on Friday.
