Mediterranean Sea

A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of southern Tunisia, killing at least two people and leaving 12 missing, Tunisia’s national guard said Saturday. One survivor was rescued.

More than seven in ten Italian voters believe that illegal immigrants should be deported and returned to their homeland, as a pro-borders consensus appears to be finally developing in Europe.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with the new Syrian government is “developing very actively,” and could lead to Russia keeping some military bases that it feared losing when its client Bashar Assad was overthrown in December 2024.

The French armed forces used helicopters to board and capture a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker transiting the Mediterranean on Thursday.

A migrant boat capsized early Friday off the coast of Libya, leaving at least 15 Egyptians dead, according to Libyan officials.

Greek authorities arrested over two hundred illegal boat migrants over the weekend after Athens suspended accepting asylum applications from those who cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa.

At least seven people died, including two children, after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to a nearby Greek island capsized.

Authorities in Tunisia say 64 migrants were rescued from a boat that capsized off the country´s eastern Mediterranean coast after running out of fuel.

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision at sea Wednesday night, according to reports.

The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage.

A Russian cargo ship on its way to Syria sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after an explosion in its engine room.

Russia may lose its base at the Syrian port of Tartus after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, which would deprive the Russians of their only fueling port on the Mediterranean Sea and cripple Moscow’s ability to threaten the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from the south.

Russia announced live-fire exercised by four of its nuclear-capable missile systems in the Eastern Mediterranean off Syria on Tuesday.

Italian prosecutors have been accused of conducting a political witch hunt as they seek to jail Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini for six years over blocking an NGO migrant taxi ship in 2019.

A pod of killer whales sank a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea in a “terrifying” attack that lasted for two hours.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk announced on Tuesday that it will continue to avoid Red Sea shipping lanes for the “foreseeable future” due to terrorist attacks by the Iran-sponsored Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

Iran announced that Shahid Mahdavi, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warship, crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere.

The Mediterranean Sea could be “closed” indefinitely by Iran if the U.S. and Israel continued “crimes” in Gaza, an Iranian state report Saturday warned.

Five members of the U.S. Army were killed in a training accident late Friday when their helicopter had a “mishap” causing it to crash into the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Sunday.

U.S. Central Command said the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Middle East early Sunday making it part of the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.

A Greek captain and three of his crew faced homicide charges Wednesday over the death of a tardy passenger who was pushed into the sea.

Italy is on pace to see a record number of illegal boat migrants land on its shores as landings surged by 150 per cent.

Germany and France are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea from countries like Tunisia.

The Greek coast guard said that a ship that went down off the country’s south coast left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.

Nine Egyptian men, alleged to be people smugglers, have been arrested after a migrant boat capsized off Greece, leaving hundreds feared dead.

When they have larger boats, Med smugglers are staying in international waters as they pass by Greece to try to avoid coast guard patrols.

January to March of this year was the deadliest first quarter for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean since 2017, with 441 deaths.

Govt figures reveal the number of illegals coming to Italy has nearly tripled this year compared to the same period in 2022.

An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

NGOs operating migrant “taxi” ships have complained to the European Union about new Italian border controls, but the bloc has claimed it will not get involved.

The number of illegals landing is past 100,000 for the first time since 2017, as the government struggles to deal with waves of boats.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is said to be considering backing a “Marshall Plan” for Africa as a long-term solution to halt migration flows.

Frontex claimed activities of migrant taxi NGO ships in the Mediterranean act as a pull factor for migrants considering the deadly journey.

The German-based migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has announced it is preparing to launch its fifth vessel to the Mediterranean.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants.