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Photos: Inside a field hospital in Douma, Syria

December 18, 2015 10:26AM ET

Photographer Bassam Khabieh photographs the medics who struggle to provide care in a battered war zone

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Syria's War
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Medics treat the injured inside a field hospital after air and missile strikes in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria Dec. 13, 2015. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
Looking at an X-ray inside the hospital. The area is controlled by forces arrayed against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
Medics in the area are forced to treat the injured in basements and other improvised shelters. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
The district has been under constant shelling for the last three years. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
An injured boy undergoes surgery. The photos in this set were taken by Reuters photographer Bassam Khabieh. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
A stairway in the hospital is speckled with patients’ blood. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
An man injured in the shelling sits inside the hospital. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
What remains of a nursery for newborns lies in shambles. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
Douma Syria field hospital
A woman carries an injured baby born inside the hospital. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
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An injured man waits in a makeshift ward. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

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