Fadi Salim was terrified he wouldn’t make it out of Syria alive.
Salim was freezing cold, filled with dread and thought he could be captured and sent back to Syria or shot by Turkish soldiers patrolling the inhospitable terrain on the border. His friend had been hurled off a rooftop in Syria’s ISIS-controlled Raqqa.
His chances for survival – after deserting the army and fleeing Syria – were slim.