A dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down off the Greek island of Kos on August 11, 2015. The Turkey-Greece route for migrants fleeing into Europe has resurfaced these summer months as a thriving business for smugglers profiting from the stream of people fleeing war and poverty. #

In Syria, more than four years of war have taken a massive toll, and sent millions fleeing. This image is a view taken from Aleppo’s Syrian-regime-controlled neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal, showing heavily damaged buildings on July 30, 2015. #

A Syrian emergency responder runs toward the site of airstrikes following shelling by Syrian government forces on a marketplace in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 16, 2015. At least 82 people were killed and 250 people were injured, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. #

Syrian emergency personnel gather dead bodies wrapped in shrouds following airstrikes by Syrian government forces on a marketplace in the rebel-held area of Douma on August 16, 2015. #

An injured Syrian boy waits to receive treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, following airstrikes by Syrian government forces on August 16, 2015. #

More than 600,000 Syrians have fled south into Jordan since the start of the war. In this July 29, 2015, photo, a Syrian refugee boy plays with a tire at the Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan. On Zaatari’s anniversary this past week, the transformation from tent camp to city symbolized the failure of rival world powers to negotiate an end to Syria’s war. #

Syrian refugee Kutana al-Hamadi, 24, tends to her son Almunzir, 7 months, covered with a mosquito net, at their tent in an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, on July 21, 2015. Almunzir is suffering from malnutrition, according to his mother. “My son is too weak; my body doesn’t produce milk (and) ... we can’t afford buying milk,” says al-Hamadi. “We survived the barrel bombs in Syria but I’m afraid we won’t survive the lack of health and food.” #

A lighthouse operates on a beachfront near the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, on August 17, 2015. The beach is used by many migrants to launch their boats to cross to the nearby Greek island of Kos, seen in the background. #

Anas, last name not given, age 19, a Sunni Arab from Damascus, Syria, shows his wounds from sniper fire as he waits near Basmane train station in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, on August 15, 2015. The migrants hope to make it to Greece in boats and eventually reach wealthier European countries. #

Syrian migrants, planning to cross by boat to the nearby Greek island of Kos, try on life jackets offered for sale outside a tourist shop in the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, on August 13, 2015. #

Migrant Youssef Ahmed Zaid, 5, from Afghanistan, smiles at the bus station where his family has sought shelter until they cross into Greece, in the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, on August 16, 2015. The city of Bodrum, a magnet for wealthy tourists, is these days drawing plenty of other visitors: migrants fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and Africa and seeking a better life in Europe. At its closest point, the Greek island of Kos is only 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from Turkey, and migrants—mostly from Syria, but also from Afghanistan, Iran, and African nations—often try to cross in groups upward of eight people in small inflatable plastic boats meant for a maximum of four, powered by tiny electric outboard motors and plastic paddles. #

Migrants wait in near darkness to run to the sea with their dinghy in order to try to cross to the nearby Greek island of Kos, at the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, on August 14, 2015. #

Migrants wait on a beach to board a small boat to sail to the Greek island of Kos, in Bodrum, Turkey, on August 17, 2015. The early hours are the safest time for migrants traveling from Turkey to the Greek islands just across the water, which have seen a huge influx of refugees escaping the civil war in Syria and chaos in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. #

Migrants sailing from the city of Izmir in Turkey to the Greek island of Chios pose for a selfie on the boat in this picture taken August 12, 2015, and acquired by Reuters on August 15, 2015. The migrant who took this picture is from Damascus, Syria, where he had been studying at college. He told a Reuters photographer that he was attempting to make his way to Germany. #

A raft overcrowded with Syrian refugees approaches a beach on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a part of the Aegean sea from Turkey to Greece on August 13, 2015. #

Syrian migrants try to make it to shore in their sinking dinghy as they arrive on the Greek island of Kos, on August 17, 2015. Their motor broke down partway through their trip from the Turkish coast, and they paddled the rest of the way. #

Migrants and refugees are pushed as riot police try to maintain an orderly line during a registration procedure at the national stadium of the Greek island of Kos on August 12, 2015. #

Two Syrian refugees sit at the dock of the port of Kos as the passenger ship Eleftherios Venizelos backs into the quay on August 14, 2015. The vessel will house more than 2,500 migrants who arrived in the country from the Turkish coast and will be used as a registration center for migrants. #

A man carries his child as he walks on railway tracks towards the Macedonian town of Gevgelija, from where they hope to catch a train heading to the border with Serbia on August 13, 2015. #

Migrants rush to board a train at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, close to the border with Greece, on August 15, 2015. In the past month, an estimated 30,000 refugees have passed through Macedonia, another step in their uncertain search for a better life in western Europe. #

An injured migrant boy is helped after he received an electric shock while trying to climb a utility pole at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, close to the border with Greece, on August 14, 2015. #

Hungarian soldiers build a fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Asotthalom, Hungary, on August 10, 2015, as the flow of migrants continues to hit Hungary’s southern borders. More than 100,000 migrants have reached Hungary on routes across the Balkans so far in 2015. Recently, some 80 percent of them are from war zones like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. #

A family pf migrants from Syria who have just crossed the border from Serbia into Hungary sit in the shade as they wait for a bus organized by the police to take to them to the nearby Roszke transit center from the village of Asotthalom on August 12, 2015, near Szeged, Hungary. Although very few asylum-seekers choose to stay in Hungary, preferring to move on to northern European countries, under EU law they can be returned to Hungary if they are later detained in another EU state. #

In this photo taken on August 11, 2015, migrants from Syria trek through a field while on their way to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border in Horgos, Serbia. Serbia's border with EU-member Hungary has become a major crossing point for tens of thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa who are using the so-called Balkan route to enter the EU while fleeing poverty and wars in their home countries. #

In Traiskirchen, Austria, a child plays next to tents at the asylum processing center on July 31, 2015. Austria pledged to improve appalling conditions at its refugee centers and admitted its current laws were insufficient to meet what Chancellor Werner Faymann described as “Europe's biggest challenge.” Thousands of people from countries like Afghanistan or Syria have fled through the Balkans to Austria, pushing the number of asylum requests to 28,300 in the first six months of this year—more than the total for all of 2014. #

A refugee family who arrived in Germany by crossing the nearby Austrian border goes to a rest area placed in a sports hall of an initial registration center of the German federal police (Bundespolizei) on August 11, 2015 in Deggendorf, Germany. The center processes refugees who have arrived in Germany by crossing the nearby Austrian border. Bavaria is currently struggling to cope with the daily arrival of hundreds of refugees, most of whom are from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq and arrive via the Balkans through Austria. Germany is expecting over 400,000 refugees and migrants to arrive this year and apply for asylum in a phenomenon that is straining both the budgets and the social cohesion of local communities. #

This pair of photos shows Syrian former rebel commander Laith Al Saleh, 30. On the left, he poses with his assault rifle near his ravaged home city of Aleppo, Syria, in January of 2015. On the right, he waits to board an Athens-bound ferry on the Greek island of Kos on August 15, 2015. Al Saleh is one of the tens of thousands of Syrian men, women, and children who, due to Europe’s asylum policy, risk drowning to be smuggled into Greece by sea on frail, crammed rafts, paying a small fortune for the service. He hopes to gain asylum in the Netherlands, and, this time legally, fly his wife and son over to join him. #