
Reyhanlı, Turkey. An entire extended family and some family friends share one house, donated to them by a local Turkish councillor.

Hacipaşa, Turkey. Refugees erecting tents and covers in a warehouse space. Hacipasa is separated from Syria by the Orontes river, a route regularly used for smuggling people and supplies to and from Syria.
The United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR estimates that more than 10 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes, almost half of Syria's pre-war population. Official figures put the death toll at a figure exceeding 250,000 people.
A war between states is being played out within the border fences of a single country, increasingly sectarian and incomprehensibly brutal.
The international community seems unable and unwilling to step in, as neighbouring nations are slowly drawn into or affected by the violence, beginning to engulf the entire region and beyond.
Thousands spend their nights in darkness; in fields, tents and abandoned homes without electricity, adequate food and water or warmth, or means of communication. NGOs do their best to improve sanitary and medical facilities, but the population increases each day, bringing new challenges.
With the recent mass migration to Europe, which included a high percentage of Syrian citizens it's easy for forget that often the most vulnerable are the Syrians that remain in Syria, or in one of the endless formal and informal camps in neighbouring countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

Atmeh IDP camp, close to Syria's border with Turkey.

Without electricity, running water, and with little food or blankets, thousands of Syrian families live in Atmeh camp for internally displaced persons (IDP's).

Reyhanlı refugee camp, Turkey. The camp was one of the first to host waves of people seeking shelter outside Syria, but has since been closed and it's almost three thousand residents moved onto larger refugee camps in Turkey.

Syrians from the town of Ayn al-Arab (known in Kurdish as Kobane) rush into Turkey at unofficial crossing points opened by the Turkish authorities on 24th September 2014, as Islamic State militants surround the town and battle with Kurdish forces.

Children playing football in the Atmeh IDP camp, Syria.

Syrian Kurds from the town of Ayn al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish) are prevented from returning to Syria from Turkey at Mürşitpınar border crossing. Some of the men intend to join the Kurdish forces fighting against Islamic State militants besieging their town, others want to return to secure their homes and belongings or bring relatives to Turkey. 24th September 2014.

Atmeh IDP camp on Syria's border with Turkey.

A Syrian woman waits outside a tent being used as a makeshift hospital and clinic in Atmeh IDP camp, Syria.

Yayladağı, Turkey. Smoking a nargila in one of the first refugee camps for Syrians escaping violence into southern Turkey.

A mother rubs the feet of her 8 year old daughter, paralysed by a sniper bullet. She remains hopeful that by rubbing and massaging her daughters' feet, she will regain some feeling.

Newly arrived Syrian refugees from the town of Ayn al-Arab / Kobane are greeted on the Turkish side of the border by aid organisations, where they receive vaccinations and a brief medical check before being taken to temporary shelter nearby.

Men from the town of Ayn al-Arab (known in Kurdish as Kobane) in northern Syria, seen in the rear right of the image, watch as smoke appears from the town. The men are three of an estimated 130,000 Syrians that crossed into Turkey within only a few days in late September 2014 after Islamic State militants encircled their hometown. Outside of Suruç, Şanlıurfa province, southern Turkey.

Rehabilitation centre for injured Syrians in Reyhanlı, Southern Turkey.

Islahiye refugee camp for Syrians in southern Turkey.

Azraq refugee camp, northern Jordan. Syrian customers at the Samah supermarket pay for their shopping using their iris. The WFP provides money to Syrians in Jordan, and they can only access and spend this money by having their eyes scanned and using their iris/eyes to pay at certain ATMs and markets.

Blinded by shrapnel, relatives and doctors check for any improvement. A rehabilitation centre in Reyhanlı, Turkey.

Islayhie refugee camp, Turkey

"I did it for my family," he says. His father had suffered a heart attack and he is the oldest of four siblings. Now, though, Mohammed has been able to go back to school thanks to assistance from an aid organisation.

An injured Syrian man is taken to hospital from a rehabilitation centre for Syrians, in the Turkish border town of Reyhanlı.
As the conflict continues year after year, the Syrian civilians are the ones paying the personal price.
Displaced internally and still at risk of air strikes, or in a camp in one of the Syria's neighbouring states, conditions are often unsustainable and lack security.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have made the journey to Europe recently, with aspirations of a new life, more opportunity and safety.

An elderly woman cries as she hears news of recent attacks by the Syrian military in her hometown, where her daughter and grandchildren are still trying to flee to Turkey. Reyhanli refugee camp, Turkey. March 2012


Born into an IDP camp with no running water, no electricity, few doctors, an ever growing population, and still at risk from air strikes. Atmeh, Syria.

Syrian journalists and activists sleeping in a makeshift media centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border town, a few kilometres from the Syrian border. The apartment is used as a base for editing, uploading, and resting between assignments in northern Syria

Malik Khaled stands in front of a group of Syrians injured by the ongoing conflict participate in a lesson on how to move and use wheelchairs. Reyhanli, Turkey

Syrian-Kurdish refugees crossing into Turkey from Ayn-al-Arab / Kobane, in trucks under the watch of the Turkish Jandarma, as ISIS militants took control over the border town. 2014

Yayladağı refugee camp for Syrians in Turkey. Flooded tents and bad weather conditions worsen the situation for already worn spirits.

Discussing the situation and the future in an opposition controlled area. Adthar, Idlib, Syria.

Siblings. Yayladağı refugee camp, Turkey

Syrian children living in Atmeh IDP camp, Idlib province, north-western Syria.

Lost children. Islahiye refugee camp, Turkey.