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Europe's migrant crisis: Nearly 2,000 stranded in no-man's land
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Migrants set off on foot from Budapest, Hungary, for the border with Austria on September 4, 2015. Hungary says it is enforcing EU rules that it must register all migrants caught crossing its borders, but thousands are refusing, demanding they be allowed to continue their journey to western Europe. (Reuters Photo)
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Relatives carry a coffin during the funeral of the two Syrian toddlers and their mother who drowned trying to reach Greece, in the Syrian border town of Kobani, on September 4, 2015, while their distraught father begged Arab countries to do more to help Syria's refugees. (Reuters Photo)
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Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 4, 2015. EU officials are preparing to push EU member governments to take in more asylum-seekers from pressured frontier states, including Hungary. (Reuters Photo)
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Hundreds of migrants walk after leaving the transit zone of the Budapest train station, on September 4, 2015, intending to walk to the Austrian border. They were part of an estimated 2,000 migrants stuck in makeshift refugee camps after railway authorities blocked them from boarding trains to Austria and Germany. (AFP Photo)
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Police officers guard a local refugee camp in Roszke, Hungary, on September 4, 2015. Hungarian police had temporarily shut the Roszke border crossing with Serbia after 300 migrants escaped from the camp. (AFP Photo)
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Migrants leave a migrant reception centre in Roszke, Hungary, on September 4, 2015. About 300 migrants broke out of a Hungarian border camp on Friday and hundreds of others set off on foot from Budapest as police scrambled to keep control of a migrant crisis that has stretched Europe's asylum system to breaking point. (Reuters Photo)
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A standoff between migrants and Hungarian police officers at the migrant reception center in Roszke, Hungary, on September 4, 2015, after about 300 people broke out of the reception center. (AP Photo)
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A boy sits behind a fence as a police officer walks past at the migrant reception centre in Roszke, Hungary, on September 4, 2015. (Reuters Photo)
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Some 2,000 mostly-Syrian refugees spent a rainy night stranded in no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia as hundreds more began arriving Saturday on their way to western Europe. (AFP Photo)
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Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and sealed off the border for 24 hours struggling to control the numbers of refugees and migrants, many of them fleeing Middle East conflicts, seeking to reach western Europe. (Reuters Photo)
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Thousands of rain-soaked migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday as security forces struggled to enforce a decree to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe. (Reuters Photo)
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Police prevented reporters to access a no-man's land where on August 20, officers had been in a standoff with about 1,500 migrants and refugees who wanted to cross into Macedonia. (AFP Photo)
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Crowds of migrants and refugees were building on Greece's border with Macedonia on Saturday after a cold, wet night spent in the open, their entry slowly rationed by Macedonian police and soldiers. (Reuters Photo)
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Migrants wait at Greece's border with Macedonia, hoping to enter Gevgelija, Macedonia.(Reuters Photo)
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Migrants walk along the railway tracks at the Greek-Macedonian border, blocked by Macedonian police near the town of Idomeni, Northern Greece. (AFP Photo)
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A woman hugs two boys after crossing Greece's border into Macedonia. (Reuters Photo)
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