Since July 2015, a siege has been imposed by the Syrian government forces around the town of Madaya, near the border with Lebanon in Syria’s Rural Damascus Governorate. Since the single one-off food distribution on 18 October, this has been tightened to a total stranglehold siege. Around 20,000...
MSF teams have managed to deliver urgently needed aid to thousands of people in the city of Aleppo (Syria) which is going through its fifth winter of civil war. In partnership with the Aleppo City Local Council, 5,200 winter and hygiene for displaced families were distributed in the first weeks of...
After two months of in-depth investigations following the US airstrikes that destroyed the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on 3 October, MSF today announces with great sadness that the death toll has been confirmed to be at least 42 people. The revised figures...
More Than 500,000 People Worldwide Call on White House to Consent to Independent Investigation of U.S. Military Attack on MSF Hospital in Afghanistan Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today delivered a petition signed by more than 547,000 people to the White House, calling for President Obama to...
An upsurge in fighting and bombing over the past week in northern Syria’s Azaz district, near the Turkish border, is jeopardising medical activities in the few hospitals and health posts that are still functioning, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without...
MSF teams providing support to the Chadian Ministry of Health A triple suicide attack that took place on the island of Koulfa in the Lake Chad area in Chad on Saturday (5 Dec) morning has reportedly killed 30 people and wounded up to 200. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams present in the area...
Hospital partially destroyed – patients under treatment died in transit A double-tap 1 barrel bombing on Saturday 28 November on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital in a besieged zone in northern Homs governorate, Syria, has caused 7 deaths, the partial destruction of the hospital...
By Christopher Stokes, General Director, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) The US version of events presented today leaves MSF with more questions than answers. It is shocking that an attack can be carried out when US forces have neither eyes on a target nor access to a no-strike list, and have...
