By Noor Wazwaz
March marks the fourth year of the Syrian war. The United Nations estimates that nearly 4 million people have fled since 2011 due to the fighting. Noor Wazwaz spent time with one of these refugee families here in Chicago.
Photo at top: The family, which fled the violence in Syria two years ago, is building a new life in the United States. Sobhe Turkmani and his wife Nada Alfsh (to his left), his sister Mayada Turkmani sit in the living room of their three-bedroom home in Evanston, with five out of her six children (left to right): Zakarya, Zainab, Shaema, Wadad and Shahd Elaly. The eldest, Zaid, is not pictured. (Noor Wazwaz/Medill)
