Press Releases

For Immediate Release   December 8, 2015 Washington, DC - In Douma, East Ghouta, a 4 week premature baby was delivered from his dead mother after aerial attacks hit residential areas. The...

Last week, the House of Representatives voted to sharply increase the security screening of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, a measure that would essentially halt the refugee resettlement process. This measure is...

For Immediate Release   November 19, 2015   Washington, DC - Beginning at 10am on Thursday, November 19, airstrikes, surface-to-surface missiles, and cluster bombs hit civilian areas of besieged Douma,...

Following the horrific attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, there has been a rise in anti-Syrian refugee rhetoric coming from U.S. governors, Congresspeople, and policymakers. Governors across the United...

For Immediate Release   November 17, 2015   Washington, DC - As a non-political, Syrian American led humanitarian organization, SAMS strongly supports the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which resettles tens of...

For Immediate Release    November 16, 2015   Washington, DC - The Syrian American Medical Society mourns the victims of the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut, and the ongoing...

For Immediate Release   November 2, 2015   Washington, DC - In the last three days, the besieged town of Douma in Rural Damascus was targeted multiple times by aerial attacks,...

For Immediate Release October 30, 2015 New York, NY - On October 29, the Syrian American Medical Society, Physicians for Human Rights, and Doctors Without Borders held a 'die-in' to...

For Immediate Release October 26, 2015 NEW YORK - Hundreds of health professionals and volunteers will stage a die-in onThursday, October 29, to represent the medical personnel killed during the...