Photos of Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old who drowned as his family tried to flee from Kobani to Europe, spread around the world this week. What's the story behind the tragedy? WSJ's Jason Bellini has # ...

Mehmet Ciplak recounted how he prayed the little boy was still alive as he walked ... up the lifeless body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi - whose death pricked the world's conscience ...

The influx was highly politicized: in the 2015 election campaign, the image of Syrian refugee child Aylan Kurdi dead on a Turkish beach broke the internet and the hearts of Canadian voters.