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    'Staring Death In The Face': Michigan Man Reflects On Getting Shot In Syria

    Mar 12, 2018 3 minutes
    (Courtesy Caleb Stevens)

    A 23-year-old American man stumbled into a Chicago emergency room in January with a gunshot wound from Syria. Caleb Stevens had been fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish militants. The Chicago Tribune confirmed his story and now he is home recovering in Michigan.

    As he was working his way through the United States Military Academy, Stevens was “watching the world fall apart for people in Syria.”

    “It registered as something I saw as a tragedy and something that I would be interested in working on,” Stevens tells ‘s Robin Young. “But it was years later that I actually saw, ‘Hey, I could do something about this.’ ”

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