Powerful Photo of a Young Syrian Refugee
Thousands of Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey.
ByABC News
September 25, 2014, 5:28 PM
— -- The photo alone will break your heart.
A powerful image taken this week shows a young Syrian Kurdish child crying as Turkish police search the bags of people crossing the border, fleeing unrest in Syria.
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Viewers instantly connected with the photo, calling it tear-jerking, and moving. Tens of thousands of Syrians have flooded into Turkey in an attempt to escape brutal attacks by ISIS. More than 1 million Syrians have already fled to Turkey in the past few years.
Meanwhile, the United States is also getting involved, launching airstrikes into Syria targeting the extremists.