Swedish grandfather Patricio Galvez’s wearying effort to get his late daughter’s 7 children out of Syria succeeds, setting up a new challenge: caring for them
ERBIL, Iraq—The distant roar of jet engines sent 8-year-old Ibrahim scrambling for cover, his survival instincts borne of years living under bombardment on the battlefields of Syria.
But the boy was no longer in a war zone. He was in a hotel in this northern Iraqi city, and the plane overhead was a commercial airliner, like the one that would soon take him home to Sweden, along with six younger siblings.
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