After five years as a refugee in Turkey and more than a week trapped by a U.S. political and legal battle over people like them, Baraa Haj Khalaf finally boarded a flight Tuesday with her husband and 1-year-old daughter from Istanbul to Chicago. “We are so full of happiness,” said Ms. Haj Khalaf, 22 years old, a student at Aleppo University before the family’s life was torn apart by the Syrian civil war. “We hope to God that we will...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2017 15:56 UTC