I moved into an abandoned apartment in the city center with three friends: Abu Abdo, my high school writing
partner; Ahmad, a friend from middle school; and Alm Dar, a Free Syrian Army field commander.
I Survived a Sarin Gas Attack -
By KASSEM EIDAPRIL 7, 2017
On Aug. 21, 2013, I woke up in the dark around 4:45 a.m., struggling to breathe.
What I saw eclipsed every horror I had seen so far: burned
and rotten corpses after massacres, bodies of women and children shredded by shelling, shrieks of my friends wounded in combat.
