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To mark World Refugee Day, a look at the refugees who have left their war-torn homelands over the past year.
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Two Syrian exiles sit at the dock of the port of Kos as the traveler ship "Eleftherios Venizelos" moves into the quay on the Greek island of Kos, August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Refugees and vagrants touch base on board the traveler ship Blue Star Patmos from the island of Lesbos at the port of Piraeus, close Athens, Greece, October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Syrian displaced people sit behind security fencing as they hold up to cross into Macedonia at the Greek-Macedonian outskirt, close to the town of Idomeni, August 21, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
A policeman tries to prevent a vagrant from boarding a train through a window at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, near the outskirt with Greece, August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Syrian exiles secured with dust land at the Trabeel fringe, in the wake of intersection into Jordanian domain with their families, close to the northeastern Jordanian outskirt with Syria, and Iraq, close to the town of Ruwaished, east of Amman September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
A vagrant rests subsequent to landing from the German naval force vessel Schleswig Holstein in the Sicilian harbor of Augusta, Italy July 23, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
A vagrant, who has quite recently been protected, supplicates on a Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) RHIB (Rigid-hulled inflatable watercraft) whilst being taken to the MOAS ship MV Phoenix, nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) off the shoreline of Libya, August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Hungarian policemen confine a Syrian vagrant family after they entered Hungary at the fringe with Serbia, close Roszke, August 28, 2015. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
A transient kid wipes his mom's tears away as they hold up to board to the Turkish Coast Guard Search and Rescue ship Umut-703 off the shores of Izmir, Turkey, after a fizzled endeavor of intersection to the Greek island of Chios, February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Syrian displaced people call for help and discharge water from their flooding flatboat as they approach the Greek island of Lesbos October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Migrants play soccer on the ball court at the Guillaume-Bude auxiliary school, on which is painted in French "Solidarity with displaced people" in Paris, France, August 2, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Migrants phone almost a wall finished with spiked metal close to the improvised camp called "The New Jungle" in Calais, France, August 19, 2015. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
A transient kid lays on the ground close to the fringe with Hungary in Horgos, Serbia, September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
A Greek policeman pushes displaced people behind a boundary at Greece's outskirt with Macedonia, close to the Greek town of Idomeni, September 9, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
A Syrian evacuee kisses his little girl as he strolls through a rainstorm towards Greece's fringe with Macedonia, close to the Greek town of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Syrian evacuee kids hop on a wall to watch a football preparing workshop in an outcast camp to give Syrian and Jordanian mentors with football preparing aptitudes, at Azraq exile camp close Al Azraq city, Jordan, November 16, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
Stranded Iranian vagrants on yearning strike, some with their lips sewn together, sit on rail tracks at the fringe amongst Greece and Macedonia close to the Greek town of Idomeni November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Hagop Manushian, a Syrian displaced person who arrived before in the morning is brought together with his granddaughter Rita at the Armenian Community Center of Toronto in Toronto, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
Migrants why should holding up cross the Greek-Macedonian fringe fight to get a shipment of kindling close to the town of Idomeni, Greece March 6, 2016. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Children play at a stopgap camp for transients and displaced people at the Greek-Macedonian fringe close to the town of Idomeni, Greece, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
A transient sits on her bed in the wake of touching base at the games lobby of the Jane-Addams secondary school changed into another outcast sanctuary in Berlin's Hohenschoenhausen locale, Germany, December 9, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Migrants line up as they land the German maritime vessel Frankfurt Am Main in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
Children sit on a window ledge at an improvised camp for exiles and transients at the Greek-Macedonian outskirt close to the town of Idomeni, Greece, May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Kostas Tsironis
Children watch a toon motion picture, screened at an improvised camp for transients and exiles at the Greek-Macedonian fringe close to the town of Idomeni, Greece, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Migrants are lit up by police lights as they raced to cross a wall amid an endeavor to get to the Channel Tunnel in Frethun, close Calais, France, August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Juan Medina