Portrait of a member of the Al-Nusra Front who had been shot in the face by an AK-47 bullet. He was sitting near to the Kilis refugee camp with some comrades. They were unimpressed by the crucifix on Mr Le Caer's ring
On The Border Of War: The Displaced And The Desperadoes Living On The Fringes Of Syria's Bloodshed -- Daily Mail
* More than a million Syrian refugees are now living in Turkey, 300,000 in camps and the remainder in towns and cities
* Photojournalist Vianney Le Caer spent a week touring the Turkish-Syrian border to take these poignant pictures
* Alongside the refugees, he found Syrian rebel fighters who cross the border for treatment in Turkish hospitals
Two men sit waiting in the central reservation of a sun-bleached highway, staring into the distance. They are staring over an imaginary line that separates Turkey, where they sit, from their homeland, Syria.
They are two of an estimated three million Syrians who have fled their country as it has, over the past three years, been reduced to rubble by civil war.
Today they hope to piece back together some of their shattered lives. They expect the arrival of relatives, fellow refugees fleeing the fierce fighting in Syria's North West. But they don't know when, or if, their loved-ones will arrive.
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My Comment: An impressive collection of pictures from photojournalist Vianney Le Caer. The pictures of the school children with their matching uniforms drawing pictures of the civil war is what sticks out for me.
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