1 | Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
2 | Macedonian special police forces have fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe. |
3 | Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are... |
4 | A migrant man holding a boy react as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
5 | A migrant man holding a boy react as they are stuck between... |
6 | An injured migrant lies on the ground after a clash with Macedonian police near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
7 | An injured migrant lies on the ground after a clash with Macedonian... |
8 | A Macedonian police officer blocking migrants at no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
9 | A Macedonian police officer blocking migrants at no-man's land... |
10 | Macedonian riot police officers clash with migrants near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
11 | Macedonian riot police officers clash with migrants near the border... |
12 | A migrant man holding a boy react as they are forced back as Macedonian riot police officers and migrants clashed near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
13 | A migrant man holding a boy react as they are forced back as... |
14 | Migrants carry an injured man after clashes with Macedonian police near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. |
15 | Migrants carry an injured man after clashes with Macedonian police... |
16 | IDOMENI, Greece (AP) - Police clashed Friday with thousands of migrants stuck at the border between Greece and Macedonia, waiting to continue long journeys into European Union countries where they hope to seek asylum. |
17 | Greece has seen a huge wave of migrants, 160,000 so far this year, many fleeing war and persecution in Syria and Afghanistan. |
18 | Most take rubber boats from Turkey to the Greek islands, then make their way north. |
19 | About 39,000 people, mostly Syrian refugees, have registered as passing through Macedonia in the past month, twice as many as the month before. |
20 | They previously encountered little resistance at the border, but the recent influx has overwhelmed Macedonian authorities who this week declared a state of emergency and stopped many from crossing. |
21 | On Friday, police fired stun grenades into a crowd of 3,000 migrants that made several attempts to charge them. |
22 | At least eight people were injured. |