The photographer who took the heart-breaking picture of Aylan Kurdi that shocked the world said it was her duty to make his story heard. Nilufer Demir, 29, was on the beach near Bodrum, Turkey, on ...

The father of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian toddler whose drowning last year swung European public opinion on the refugee crisis, was tried in absentia by a Turkish court on Thursday along with ...

A survivor who was on the same boat as tragic Aylan Kurdi has claimed his father is a people smuggler who led the doomed journey from a Turkish beach. The body of three-year-old Aylan was found washed ...

"All I want to do is sit next to the grave of my wife and children," he said. — -- The Syrian father whose two young sons died after falling off an overcrowded boat headed to Turkey was captured ...

The shocking image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old toddler who drowned off a Turkish beach last year in an attempt to flee Syria, both humanized the Syrian refugee crisis and sparked international ...

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Yasmien Kurdi detailed how her firstborn Ayesha has allegedly been enduring bullying from her classmates, noting instances when they “ganged up” on her daughter and made an online hate group against ...

Not far from where a sobbing Abdullah al-Kurdi described the moment his two children “slipped away” into the inky blackness of the Aegean Sea, plans were being hatched. Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip, ...

Some faces are impossible to forget. Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh blinking and confused as he stares through the blood and dust after a shelling in Aleppo last month ...

Tima Kurdi, third from left, stands with her brother Mohammad Kurdi, top right, upon arrival at the Vancouver airport. Pictured from left to right are Shergo Kurdi, 15, Haveen Kurdi, 16, Sherwan Kurdi ...