People fleeing repression in Belarus are processed quickly and given visas. Middle Eastern migrants passing through Belarus to the E.U. face a harsher fate.
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How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe
Social media worsened a migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland and helped smugglers profit off desperate people trying to reach Europe.
Limping and Penniless, Iraqis Deported From Belarus Face Bleak Futures
Hundreds of desperate Iraqis are being sent home after becoming political pawns in Belarus’s quarrel with its European Union neighbors.
On Putin’s Strategic Chessboard, a Series of Destabilizing Moves
In the stretch of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, where Moscow and the West have competed for influence for decades, the threat of a new military conflict is growing.
Belarus Clears Migrant Camp, Easing Border Standoff With Poland
Throngs of people, mainly from the Mideast, who had been living in freezing conditions on the border, have been moved to a giant warehouse. Their fate is uncertain.
Plane Returning Migrants From Belarus Lands in Iraq
Unable to reach the European Union, the migrants returned to Iraq, but many said they would try again to emigrate, and thousands are still in Belarus.
Elusive Migrants Leave Haunting Traces in Polish Forests
The migrants, themselves are elusive, but they leave behind evidence of the lives they left behind, and of their desperate bids to reach the European Union.
Risk for Leader of Belarus: Migrants He Lured May Want to Stay
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, whom the E.U. accuses of engineering a migrant crisis on the border with Poland, could face a serious headache if asylum seekers try to stay in his country.
How the Belarus Standoff Is Unlike Recent Migrant Crises
The images at the Belarus-Poland border look familiar, but this emergency has little in common with previous waves of people from Syria, Myanmar and Afghanistan.
Beyond the Freezing Forest, a Green Light at the Window for Migrants
An unofficial network of local residents, activists and volunteer medics in Poland has been working to support those who have made it across from Belarus in bitter conditions.