Armed Conflict

An MSF-supported hospital in Idlib province in northern Syria was destroyed in an attack on Monday morning, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . The hospital was hit four times in two series of at least two attacks within a few minutes of each other, and at least eight members of staff are...
An escalation of fighting will trigger further massive displacement and deepen humanitarian crisis As heavy fighting in Azaz district, northern Syria, displaces tens of thousands more people, the already devastated health system is close to collapse, and any escalation of fighting will further...
Airstrikes have hit an MSF-supported hospital in Dara’a governorate, southern Syria, killing three people and wounding at least six, including a nurse, says Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place...
I am a Singaporean-born, Hong Kong-raised, Paediatric doctor undergoing my first MSF mission in Gogrial, South Sudan. 
 
The war in Yemen is being fought with total disregard for the rules of war, according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has seen three of its health facilities in Yemen come under attack in the last three months. “The way war is being waged in Yemen is causing...
At around 16h local time yesterday afternoon, 21 January, the ambulance service of the MSF-supported Al Gomhoury Hospital in Saada governorate, Yemen, was hit by an airstrike, killing one Ministry of Health (MOH) staff member. The incident took place in Dhayan, about 20 kilometres from the city of...
After five months of intense negotiations with officials , Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was able on Saturday January 16, to get a delivery of two trucks full of essential medical supplies into the besieged area of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Checkpoints and...
MSF urgently calls for medical evacuations for eighteen patients whose lives are in the balance Medics supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Madaya besieged town confirm five deaths from starvation since the first UN/ICRC/SARC* humanitarian convoy arrived on the afternoon of 11 January...
An MSF supported hospital has been hit by a projectile in Northern Yemen causing at least four dead and 10 injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. Three of the injured are MSF staff two in critical condition. According to our staff on the ground, at 9:20am one...
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