High above the Black Sea, villagers communicate across deep valleys using a whistled language. Elders are working to keep alive this tradition, which could have implications for brain science.
NPR's Peter Kenyon sends this postcard from the Greek island of Lesbos, where he met a Syrian woman whose relatives were killed by ISIS, and an Iraqi man who worked with U.S. forces.
At least 13 refugees were killed when a ferry boat hit their dinghy and two dozen other are missing in after a boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos.
Abdullah Kurdi, whose 3-year-old son's lifeless body was photographed facedown on a Turkish beach, says: "I hope the world will learn something from it."
As an old conflict heats up again in southeastern Turkey, the activists have staked out ground on a sunburned hillside and say they're willing to risk their own lives in order to stop the fighting.
Ankara, long hesitant to commit to the coalition against the self-declared Islamic State, said "[the] fight against the terrorist organization is a priority."