Syrian American Medical Society

Turkey has been very generous against Syrian refugees, but it needs international solidarity especially to help the children refugees, according to Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF Representative in Turkey.

A senior UN official says he fears children waiting to be evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips, according to BBC. 

The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, told the BBC he believed that rebels had agreed to free government workers in exchange for the children.

Syrian doctors and other medical professionals, who have survived the unbridled war in their country, are helping their countrymen recover physically and mentally to embark on a new life in several facilities in southern Turkey with the support of 50 non-governmental organizations.

A video of a hurt baby who clung on to the nurse treating him in Syria has gone viral. Refusing to let go, a blood-soaked baby boy in Syria desperately clings to a nurse beside his brother after their house was hit by a devastating airstrike. This is the truly heartbreaking reality of Aleppo, captured on camera at a hospital in the bombed-out city.

Reuters has compiled striking photographs testifying to the troubles endured by Syrian refugees throughout 2015 as over 4 million Syrians have become refugees and over 12 million are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

A "significant increase" of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Oct. 29.