Dr. Abdulkhalek remembers all too well the moment that a rocket targeted the house next to his. “I remember when we were in our house and the plane targeted next to our house with a bunker buster rocket. The sound of that rocket was horrible,” he says, adding that he...

Like many Syrians displaced by the ongoing crisis, SAMS medic Abu Rajab dreams of one day returning to his hometown of Aleppo. Before the eruption of the Syrian crisis, Abu Rajab worked as radiologist technician. At the time, he could not anticipate how dramatically his life would change as years...

Women’s health and reproductive care in Syria have been disproportionately imperiled since the beginning of the conflict in 2011. In late 2016, as the siege of eastern Aleppo stifled the city’s civilian population and medical infrastructure, a group of brave medics on the ground continued providing care despite constant aerial...

My first exposure to the “refugee crisis” was in the summer of 2013, just before my senior year of high school. I was in Istanbul visiting family and the Turkish nightly news was consumed with reports of increasing numbers fleeing the seemingly endless violence in Syria. Thousands were pouring across...

It is because we label them as just that. ‘Refugees’. This mark typecasts and strips away the humanity of these individuals, and it does so because it crafts a one-dimensional perception of them.    What many of us lose sight of, is that they were often highly-educated professionals who thrived...

“Three years ago, when 10-year-old Syrian boy was 7 years old he was playing with his brothers in a field by his house in Syria when and came across a land mine. Like any typical boy he picked  it up thinking it was a toy. Unfortunately, it was not. It exploded....

I would like to make a note to the reader, that this report is intended to not simply raise awareness, but more importantly to promote pro-activity to push for better living conditions in the Syrian refugee camps.  There are currently two categories of Syrians directly affected by the war; the...

The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is grateful that as of last Thursday, December 15, over 9,500 civilians were evacuated from besieged eastern Aleppo City. Unfortunately, among those who were evacuated, 1,400 were in need of medical attention, and many were critically wounded or chronically ill. More than 90 were...