A year after Italy signed a controversial migration deal with Albania, the detention facility built to house asylum-seekers in Albania stands empty as human rights groups call the migration deal ...

UNHCR to Monitor Implementation of Italy-Albania Accord to Ensure Migrants' Asylum Rights Respected ROME (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency, which has expressed serious concerns about Italy’s deal ...

ROME — Italy is transferring the first group of migrants to Albania, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as part of a contentious plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders.

Italy’s far-right government wants to offshore the processing of asylum claims. But the first migrants sent to Albania were deemed ineligible for detention there.

The first 16 migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Europe by way of Italy arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday aboard an Italian navy vessel, marking an extraordinary ...

Authorities in Italy, Spain and Albania arrested 28 suspected members of a drug trafficking network tied to the ‘Ndrangheta, ...

Under the protocol signed between Italy and Albania last year, those sent to Albania must not show signs of torture, illness or vulnerability or be part of nuclear families traveling together.

The contentious five-year deal, inked last year, calls for Albania to house up to 3,000 male migrants at a time who have been rescued in international waters while Italy fast-tracks their asylum ...

The U.N. refugee agency has agreed to monitor the first three months of a contentious accord between Italy and Albania to process migrants' asylum requests at two centers in Albania.