Truly sorry for the loss of your cousin.
I work With refugees, many syrians among these refugees. The sad story that often comes back is almost the same as you referred with your cousin, they flee because they don't want to fight their own people, they flee because their houses are being bombed.
When people will wake up and understand that these people never asked any of this to happen. Some time we need to understand how lucky we are here in america or elsewhere in europe. We are not forced to go fight if we don't wish too, we are not bombed on a daily basis like these people are. The whole syrian situation is a big thumb down for humanity it is ridiculous.
I met a little refugee she was around 9 years old, she lost her dad and her brother just 2 months ago in a russian airstrike on allepo. There is no end to these useless violence, I cannot believe that all the world power together cannot wipe out a single terrorist organisation even 1!!!
It is a very complex situation, I do not work with syrian refugee directly but I have been helping families here in canada. What disgust me the most is when I read thing on social network of people talking about the conflict as if they know something! Pulling out every single conspiracy theories they know just because they've been watching a couple youtube videos but they truly know nothing in every aspect of this war. there is a siege on Aleppo right now were 300 000 people 99% of which are civilians who never asked anything, the russian have been bombing endlessly as if they are desperate. This weekend only in Aleppo 300 civilians died...