IN PICTURES: Syrian refugee children brave voyage through Europe

A Syrian boy looks at the camera on the Macedonia - Serbia border (MEE /Krenar Halimi

A young Syrian girl cries as her family waits to make it to western Europe (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants - many with small children - have crossed the Balkans on foot this year (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

A Syrian woman changes her baby's diaper on the Macedonia - Serbia border (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

A father holds his two young children (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

A man carries his toddler on his shoulders as thousands of people struggle to cross the border between Serbia and Macedonia (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

A Syrian family boards a bus in Macedonia heading north (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

A father holds his young daughter as fellow refugees and migrants watch on (MEE /Krenar Halimi)

Syrian refugees after crossing into Serbia from Macedonia (MEE / Nemanja Pancic)

A Syrian mother carries her child in the Serbian refugee camp of Refugee camp of Presevo close to the Macedonian border (MEE / Nemanja Pancic)

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