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European Union foreign ministers are set to adopt a fresh package of sanctions against Belarus after more than a week of escalating tensions over migrants at the group's eastern border. Belavia, Belarus's state airline,

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Western countries, rather than Belarus, are ultimately responsible for the migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border, pointing to the instability caused by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Iraqi authorities on Saturday decided to send emergency flights to evacuate stranded Iraqi migrants who want to return voluntarily from Belarus to Iraq. "The Iraqi government is closely following the situation of Iraqis stranded on the Belarus-Poland borders,

Press Secretary of the Belarusian President Natalya Eismont on Saturday told the media that Belarus is always ready for a dialogue with European Union politicians on the migrant crisis. She said "we have always been ready.

The European Union said on Friday it was making progress on tackling a migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border, but tensions remained high with hundreds trapped in no-man’s land.

The body of a young Syrian man has been found in the woods near the Polish border with Belarus, the latest victim in a political stand-off at the European Union's eastern border.The regime in Minsk has for months been encouraging illegal migration across the border into the EU nations of …

The European Union wants to blacklist airlines that carry migrants to Belarus who later attempt to cross the EU border, Reuters reports. The European Commission also said sanctions "should be used with the Belarus regime" and "there will be a proposal" to extend existing sanctions.

US President Joe Biden has expressed concern about the situation in Belarus as it faces accusations of encouraging migrants to cross into Poland and Lithuania via its territory.

Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday announced the suspension of direct flights to Belarus to protect Iraqi migrants from human trafficking gangs. Iraqi embassies in Russia and Poland are coordinating efforts for the voluntary return of the Iraqi migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland borders,

As the humanitarian crisis at the Belarus border continues to bubble, Iraq stops flights to Minsk and Turkey ban certain foreign nationals from getting on flights to the Belarus capital.