GRC130306AA001 LESBOS, Greece — As he knelt in front of his younger brother's grave, Farouk Nabi held up his smartphone so that his mother and sister more than 2,000 miles away could read the writing on the marble stone: "Pakar Ghulam Nabi, 50."

He heard the two women in Afghanistan scream, cry and then pray. “My mother doesn't sleep at night anymore,” Nabi, 52, said. “She waits to say goodbye to her son and hopes that her grandchildren are still alive. I came here to put her soul at ease.”

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