Syrian refugees

Tourists walk past life preservers on the beaches of Kos, Greece.

Bikinis and lifevests: Indelible images from an island shared by tourists, refugees

March 8, 2016Conflict

Without an end to the wave of people fleeing warfare Syria and elsewhere for a new future, it can be easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering. From the Greek island of Kos, photographer Jörg Brüggemann captured jarring juxtapositions on beaches shared by vacationers and refugees alike.

Ahmed Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, Syria, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on the island of Jeju.

A Syrian man takes refuge in a Korean honeymoon resort island

January 19, 2016Conflict

Dr. Zoi Livaditou (R) greets Dr. Shimrit Eliyah of Israid in Skala Sykaminia, Lesbos, Greece. Dr. Andreas Iliadis looks on.

On Lesbos, a courageous doctor struggles to save Syrian refugees and help locals

January 15, 2016Conflict

Young migrants and refugees walk through a town in northern Serbia toward the Hungarian border. There's a fear that young men like these might bring violence with them.

These men say they’re leaving Syria because they don’t want to fight anyone

January 13, 2016Conflict

An Iraqi man mourns his wife on the beach on Lesbos on October 15, 2015.

How one Syrian refugee wound up bringing his dying wife with him to Greece

November 27, 2015Conflict

The ancient Theatre of Assos overlooking the Aegean Sea, with the nearby island of Lesbos on the horizon, at right.

This beautiful Turkish tourist town is now home to boats stuffed with refugees and migrants headed for Lesbos

October 8, 2015Conflict

Although the scenery in the ancient city of Assos in Turkey could not be more stunning, the situation is grim for refugees and migrants in camps who must do business with traffickers in order to cross the Aegean Sea and enter Europe, in hope of getting asylum.

Two of the rejected covers that French magazine the Charlie Hebdo instead placed at the back of the issue.

Why Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the drowned Syrian boy are lost in translation

September 16, 2015Media

Cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine, are riffing off the heartbreaking image of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand and it’s provoking reaction online. Here’s what’s behind the controversy.

A Syrian child receives a toy in the home a Berlin resident.

She saw herself in the face of a Syrian girl driven from her home

September 10, 2015Conflict

Anna Dushime, a Berlin resident, originally from Rwanda opened her home to a family of Syrian refugees.

A young Syrian girl is wrapped with a thermal blanket following a rescue operation on the island of Lesbos, in Greece.

Icelanders say they want to house Syrian refugees — but in Greece the government and residents are overwhelmed

September 1, 2015Conflict

Iceland’s government says it’s willing to accept 50 Syrian refugees during the next two years. But a Facebook event page has been created to challenge that policy and more than 10,000 Icelanders on the page have offered to take in Syrians on the run. Meanwhile, on the Greek island of Lesbos, a sharp increase in the number of refugees arriving on the island is leaving government officials and residents overwhelmed.

Giving Syrian children their identities back, one portrait at a time

November 10, 2014Conflict

Photographer Rania Matar went back to her hometown of Beirut to work on a project about teenagers. Then, on every corner, she stumbled into young Syrian refugees. They became subjects of her new series called “Invisible Children.”