“On the train through Macedonia, I ask Ahmad if he thinks he will ever return to Syria. ‘Inshallah,’ he says: God willing. Then he turns his head and looks out the window, trying to hide the tears he is wiping off his cheek.” A NYT Interactive piece: A Family Swept Up in the Migrant Tide.

+ Quartz: Syrian refugees are traveling across the Arctic Circle to Europe. (And it turns out that it’s a journey that often requires a bicycle.)