There are no beaches along Syria’s border with the southern Turkish province of Kilis. On the Syrian side there are few if any western photographers to capture images of the suffering. Yet there is little doubt that the misery endured by refugees there in the next few days will exceed the misery that briefly galvanised the world when three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body was washed ashore last year in Turkey.
Starting last Friday, in the space of 48 hours, a steady trickle of refugees reaching the Turkish border from Aleppo turned into a flood. Syrian regime forces backed by Russian airstrikes have cut the rebels’ last major supply route to the country’s second city. Within its walls a few hundred fighters and a few hundred thousand