Migrants leave Syria

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Migrants land in Lesbos, Greece.

Travelers try to keep their belongings dry as they splash ashore.

Huda Malak waits on shore for word of her husband.

Firas Gharghoori hugs one of his daughters after they safely reach Lesbos.

Family members embrace in relief after reaching Lesbos.

Hussam Din of Iraq embraces his daughter, 5-year-old Nawrass.

Raed Mutleb, 27, makes his way across Greece with metal crutches — the result, he says, of a bullet in the spine during anti-government protests in Damascus in 2011.

Syrians wait at the train station in Gevgelija, Macedonia, after a long, hot trek from the Greek side of the tracks.

Migrants wait to be processed by police in Molyvos, Greece.

Amina Anas and her son jump over sewage in front of their tent at a migrant camp outside Mytilini, Greece.

Syrians walk from Evzoniou, Greece, toward the Macedonia border.

The family gathers on the balcony of Tarek Sheikh’s sister’s apartment in Lyon, France. From left are Fatima Sheikh, Tarek’s mother; Tarek and Huda; Mohammed Sheikh, Tarek’s younger brother; and Shatha Sheikh, Tarek’s older sister, and her daughter, Shaymaa Alice.

Huda Malak and her husband, Tarek Sheikh, have settled in the bustling French city of Lyon, along the Rhone, at the foot of the Alps, after their harrowing journey from Syria.