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Drs. Abdulkhalek (center) and Farida (right) look on during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on the conflict in Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington.

These two Syrian doctors survived the siege of Aleppo — and helped many others survive, too

March 16, 2017Conflict

As bombs rained down in Aleppo, these Syrian doctors comforted their patients — and their daughter. The couple traveled to Washington this week to lobby Congress for humanitarian aid for Syria.

Civil defense members carry a casualty after an airstrike in the rebel held area of al-Sukari in Aleppo.

A Chicago surgeon recounts a nightmarish journey through Aleppo

August 1, 2016Conflict

Plastic surgery in Afghanistan

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