Two Metro Detroit physicians returned to homes in Syria for the first time in over a decade and are organizing medical relief ...

Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home. Germany ...

Doctors at Tishreen Hospital ... "I went back and forth for nothing," he said. Assad fled Syria last month after Islamist-led rebels wrested city after city from his control until Damascus fell, ...

Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train their Syrian colleagues. Many hospitals were destroyed during Syria's 14-year civil war.

Germany's Development Minister Svenja Schulze promised to support Syria's "peaceful and stable development" as she visited Damascus on Wednesday to meet with the interim authorities.

Almost 6,000 of Germany’s doctors have a Syrian passport, and it’s estimated that 15,000–20,000 doctors in the country have a Syrian background. As Germany’s right-wing politicians demand ...

Rass agreed that the number of medical students and young doctors has increased in Syria since he was in school there, but the medical infrastructure and opportunities have remained stagnant.

An estimated 5,000 Syrian doctors work in hospitals alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who puts the total number of Syrian doctors at over 6,000, says they are “indispensable” to health care.

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home.