Syria
![Potato Fields](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Potato-Fields.jpeg)
Mothers Running With Families · Syria
Arrival: The Potato Fields
"How did they have the courage and strength to run from the bombs, through the cities and the snipers and the rebels and Assad’s army and ISIS to this hopeless barren potato field?"
![Amina Children 1](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Amina-Children-1.png)
Amina · Syria
Belonging: A Math Teacher and a Mother
I have missed three years of their lives. I will never get them back.
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Amina · Syria
Leaving Aleppo
Amina is one of countless indomitable refugee mothers in the world
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Amina · Syria
I Have Missed Three Years of Their Lives
My husband told me to go to Germany with our youngest son because I am a math teacher and can speak English, and because I am strong.
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Arif - Syria · Syria
Arrival: I Must be Strong for Her
"I like being in school again..."
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Sanaz · Syria
The Journey: We Awoke to Find Planes Bombing Above Us
Our life was very good. We were very comfortable and happy.
![Firoz](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/firozsm-compressed.jpg)
Syria
They Kept Killing — They Killed so Many
ISIS began invading our village on the first day of the revolution.
![Khaldieh](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/DSC_4013.jpeg)
Syria
KHALDIEH
The Boat was Sinking
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Syria
FIROZ
I’m Worried about My Family
![Amina Children 1](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Amina-Children-1.png)
Syria
My Children's Childhood Has Gone with The War
I came from Syria from the city of Aleppo. I was a math teacher in Aleppo’s high schools.
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Syria
"Are We in Control of Our Destiny?"
Hassan asks: "In times of war, are we in control of our destiny?"
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Syria
KAMIL
Kamil was born a refugee, as was his father, Akhtar. His Palestinian grandparents fled to Syria in the late 1940’s and raised their family in Yarmouk, a thriving, almost exclusively Palestinian suburb of Damascus.
![Ahktar Crying](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Ahktar-crying.jpg)
Syria
AKHTAR
STORY UPDATE: Akhtar is an expert craftsman in marble and granite. His life's work. All gone.
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Syria
Holding On
They live in uncertainty, but are remarkably resilient and cheerful in bad conditions. They hold up the best they can, and cling to the most important things - loved ones, faith, and hope.
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Syria
Abdul Nasser
Dr. Abdul Nasser Kaadan, of Aleppo Syria, is a highly regarded physician and scholar. But his honors, credentials, and vital work could not keep him safe in his home country.
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Aeham · Syria
Our Lives Before: The Piano Man of Yarmouk
His musical notoriety brought condemnation from ISIS, which banned western music. So they torched his piano.
![Hasan Pic](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Hasan-pic.jpg)
Syria
Hasan & Rushte
Rushte had turned her paper over and drawn what was in her heart and in her head...such a disconnect to the smile on her face!
![Amina](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Amina.jpg)
Syria
Amina
Amina & her son are now in their third camp. Intellect on hold, school on hold.