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“We are so exhausted”, said Hikmat, a bare-footed 32-year-old Syrian woman from Damascus, after a journey, like many others, by sea and then through the Balkans to the border between the two former Yugoslav republics. They estimate that more than 300,000 have passed...

This was a direct result of Hungary closing its border with Serbia, leaving thousands stranded.

PARIS (AP) – When Islamic State extremists lost control of a key crossroads town in northern Syria in June, some militants shed their jihadi garb and blended in with the flood of Syrians fleeing across the Turkish border.

Budapest described the train’s unannounced arrival as a “major, major incident” – and alleged 40 police officers accompanying the migrants had to be disarmed and sent back. “I find it weird and shocking that certain esteemed worldwide figures have...

The decision came after the refugees and asylum seekers switched routes from Hungary to Croatia after the government in Budapest dramatically increased security at its borders. Stay in refugee centers in Serbia and Macedonia and Greece.

Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants.

Refugees wait inside the train that will bring them to the capital Zagreb in Osijek, near Hungarian border in Croatia.

In Croatia, 5,000 migrants have arrived in the country since Hungary imposed its crackdown, which included the building of a huge wall created to keep migrants out.

That route may soon close when Hungary completes the razor-wire fence it’s building on its 108-mile border with Serbia.

The Hungarian police announced Tuesday that the country has closed its borders to the influx of migrants and refugees attempting to cross into the European Union.

Numerous refugees and migrants are Syrians and Iraqis fleeing war in their homelands.

From Wednesday night more than 3,500 migrants were transported by buses towards the Croatian border crossings Bezdan and Sid, with the financial assistance of the UN’s worldwide Organization for Migrations. “They have the same obligations as Croatia to keep people...

Ban said at the news conference: “I was shocked to see how these refugees and migrants were treated, it’s not acceptable”.

A special train transporting 800 arrived near Zagreb from the border early on Thursday, but thousands more were waiting for trains in baking sun at a tiny station near the Serb frontier.

They are desperate to get around the border fence Hungary has thrown up along its border with Serbia, where tensions boiled into violence on Wednesday at the flashpoint Horgos-Roszke crossing, after around 500 refugees had been blocked on their march north.