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