40 Most Powerful Images Of 2014

39. Children Of Syria

Children stand in a trench built for mortar attacks by Islamic State group fighters against the civilians in the buffer zone near the Turkish border in Kobani, Syria.

While most managed to flee across the nearby border with Turkey, some 2,000 Kurdish civilians have opted to stay with the hope that fighting will soon subside. A shocking contrast from the population of 50,000 that once filled these streets.