A Cyprus court has sentenced a Syrian national to five years in prison for helping 31 Syrian migrants reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard an overloaded boat.

UN Refugee Agency Says Cyprus Still Pushes Back Migrant Boats, Cyprus Insists Agency Has It Wrong NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP ... departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon. The clash, which unfolded ...

A man was handed concurrent prison sentences, the longest of five years, for aiding and abetting 31 illegal immigrants from ...

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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court has sentenced a Syrian national to five years in prison for helping 31 Syrian migrants reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard an overloaded boat ...

In a written statement, the agency offered no additional details but insisted that the “individuals on board were denied access to Cyprus and are now back in Syria from where they had fled.” ...