Editor's note: Monzer Omar is one of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled their homeland since war erupted in that country in 2011. NPR correspondents Ari Shapiro and Joanna Kakissis followed ...

Here's an update on a story that NPR started following almost two years ago in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. That's where NPR's Ari Shapiro first met a teacher from Syria ...

The Eleftherios Venizelos ferry, which Greece now uses exclusively to transport refugees from the Aegean islands, arrives in the port of Piraeus near Athens. Clothes dry on the side of a fence at a ...