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Tragic death didn’t stop Syrian refugee family’s quest
The image of 3-year-old refugee Alan Kurdi lying drowned on a beach became a tragic icon of the Syrian crisis. But Alan’s death was not the end of his extended family’s quest for asylum in the West. William Brangham reports on efforts by The New York Times' Anne Barnard to share the Kurdi family’s desperate journey to safety, one shared by millions of displaced Syrians across the globe.
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