Editor's note: Monzer Omar is one of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled their homeland since war erupted in that country in 2011. NPR correspondents Ari Shapiro and Joanna Kakissis followed ...

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The Eleftherios Venizelos ferry, which Greece now uses exclusively to transport refugees from the Aegean islands, arrives in the port of Piraeus near Athens. Clothes dry on the side of a fence at a ...