A six-year-old Afghan child, Yusuf, was killed last month when security forces shot at a minibus carrying migrants in eastern Turkey. No one has been held to account for his death.
After the Taliban's August takeover, four Afghan youngsters, Nasratullah, Safiallah, Khiyali Gul, and Attaallah, decided to leave their cities in hopes of heading to Europe. But their journey took a perilous turn when they were sent to Syria instead.
Afghan clothes and Iranian SIM cards litter fields under the mountains that stand between Turkey and the Iranian border. A wisp of smoke rises out of what was a small fire, abandoned many hours before. As the Taliban swept through villages and cities in Afghanistan over the past few months, families have fled in droves,…