Aftermath of war

Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sept. 1 condemned the U.S. over its decision to end funding for the UN Palestine refugee agency.

The United Nations refugee agency called on Greek authorities on Friday to speed up the transfer of eligible asylum-seekers to the mainland, saying the situation at an overcrowded reception center on Lesvos island was "reaching boiling point."

Overcrowding at the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos has reached worrying proportions, with 8,359 residents cramped into a facility designed to hold just 3,100, though the head of the center has rebuffed media claims that the bad conditions are pushing children to attempt suicide.

Security forces have nabbed a suspected human smuggler in southern Turkey while he was hiding more than a dozen refugees in a wedding car. 

Greek authorities have arrested two aid workers and are investigating a total of 30 from the same organization on the island of Lesvos on suspicion they smuggled migrants into Greece, spied and laundered money, police said on Tuesday.

About 1.2 million Syrians have returned from refugee camps back to their homes after September 2015, the official newspaper of the Russian Federation Krasnaya Zvezda writes.

"Since September 2015, 1,186,000 Syrian citizens have returned home from refugee and internally displaced camps," the newspaper reported.

The Serbian commission for examining the alleged effects on public health of NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia will start work in late August or early September, its chairman said.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a scathing report on the "appalling" conditions that migrants and refugees face in northern Greece.

HRW said that thousands have been subject to appalling reception and detention conditions, with at-risk groups lacking necessary protection.

A 20-year-old Syrian refugee was found hanged at a migrant camp in Oinofyta, north of Athens, late on Sunday night in what authorities are treating as a suicide after foul play was ruled out.

From now on, the state, rather than individuals will be deciding on who to honor with monuments, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

Among the memorials that will most likely be removed is a plaque in Novi Pazar dedicated to Acif Efendija, and a memorial to the so-called Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedje installed in the town of Presevo.