Media & Reports

Bab Al-Salameh and Al-Ra'i Extension: ARCS and SNA Joint Statement
May 25th, 2023 /Washington DC, USA and Gaziantep, Türkiye - On May 13th, 2023, Syrian authorities extended their consent for UN humanitarian agencies to use international border crossings at Bab Al- Salameh and Al-Ra'i for 90 days, until August 13th, 2023. This… Read more
- Press Release
Syrian Diaspora Organizations Issue Urgent Statement on the Situation in Eastern Ghouta
November 1, 2017November 1st, 2017 (Washington, D.C.) -- Over the past weeks, reports have emerged detailing the tragic situation in the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, with images of emaciated children and stories of starvation bringing to…
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ARCS Advocacy Day 2017
October 31, 2017 / ARCS StaffOn October 25th, ARCS members from across the country came to Washington, D.C. to meet with their representatives and advocate on issues that have the most impact on their work. They spoke the importance and need for new approaches to e…
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ARCS Members Disturbed by Proposed Refugee Resettlement Numbers
September 15, 2017Washington, DC (September 15, 2017)- News reports this week claim that the US government is considering a huge shift in refugee resettlement policy by capping the number of admitted refugees at 50,000. This change in policy would have a widespread…
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My Year at ARCS
August 30, 2017 / Haleluya HaderoThis May, I concluded my full academic year internship with the American Relief Coalition for Syria; serving as the Communications/Advocacy/Marketing Intern during the Fall 2016 semester, and continuing on as the Senior Communications/Ad…
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Syrians Go Way Back
July 14, 2017 / Omneya MohamedThe first Arabs immigrated to the United States in the 1880s. Most of them came from Greater Syria, which is present-day Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Syria. Typically, immigrants made the journey to escape economic struggles and to purs…
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World Refugee Day 2017
June 19, 2017 / Omneya MohamedThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1951, during the Second World War. The purpose of its creation was to help millions of Europeans who fled their countries and left everything behind.
Today, the worl…
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'The dead were wherever you looked': inside Syrian town after gas attack
April 11, 2017Khan Sheikhun is a ghost town, its streets deserted and silent as though mourning the victims of the atrocity that occurred here two days earlier.
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Dozens Of Syrian Civilians Dead In Chemical Attack On Rebel-Held Town
April 11, 2017 / Kasumi QuinlanAn apparent chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held area of Syria claims the lives of dozens of civilians, including children. The White House blames the Syrian government.
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A Syrian Tailor Finds a Home in Chicago
March 27, 2017 / Haleluya HaderoAhmad Al Atrash does not like to be called a refugee. To him, a Syrian who fled a brutal civil war in his country, that word is loaded with negative connotations, and separates him from the community that has now become his home: Chicago…
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Syria conflict: Rebels launch fresh Damascus assault
March 21, 2017Rebels and allied jihadists have launched a new attack in east Damascus, two days after Syrian government forces repelled an initial assault.
A rebel official said they had retaken ground in the Jobar district which they gained on Sunday a…
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This Syrian Refugee Is Finding Hope through Surfing in Lebanon
March 21, 2017Five years since its inception, the Syrian Civil War is being called the deadliest conflict in the 21st century… thus far. More than 450,000 Syrians have been killed, and according to estimates from the United Nations High Commiss…
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Along Syria-Jordan Border, Refugees Struggle At A Camp Aid Workers Can't Visit
March 21, 2017In the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest city, 60,000 Syrians are camped out along the Syrian and Jordanian border in what has become one of the biggest and most desperate refugee settlements in the region. Few outsiders hav…