Look: Medical students graduate from a Syrian university

The newly graduated doctors are set to battle COVID-19 in rebel-held northern Syria

Last updated: December 01, 2020 | 14:37

AFP and compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor

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Syrian students from the 'Aleppo University in Liberated Areas', attending their graduation ceremony at the campus in Azaz in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province.

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Dressed in dark blue and green graduation gowns, caps, and facemasks, the new doctors lined up on stage in a hall packed with friends and family. Extending their right hand in front of them, they recited the Hippocratic Oath in unison in Arabic.

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The ceremony included the first 32 doctors to ever graduate from the university backed by the Syrian political opposition, which was founded in 2014 and has had its headquarters in Azaz for the past three years.

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Nasr al-Hariri (C), the Syrian opposition's chief negotiator, awarding an honour to a student during the graduation ceremony.

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A newly graduated Syrian medical student at the function.

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A student receives an honour during the ceremony.

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Students with their family members and other offcials are seen during the ceremony.

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Students from the 'Aleppo University in Liberated Areas', sitting with microscopes at a laboratory facility.

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Nasr al-Hariri, the Syrian opposition's chief negotiator, giving a speech during the graduation ceremony.

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Students at the 'Aleppo University in Liberated Areas' at the campus in Azaz, Aleppo province.

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Students attending a tutorial at a laboratory facility in the campus.

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Students attending a tutorial at a laboratory facility.

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Students attending a tutorial at a laboratory facility.

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