The situation is critical for more than 100,000 people trapped in the Azaz district of Aleppo governorate in northern Syria who are caught between an active Islamic State group frontline, Kurdish-controlled territories and the Turkish border, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The border...
Although the cease-fire and the humanitarian convoys have contributed to a decrease in humanitarian consequences of the conflict, the situation remains critical in many besieged areas, claims Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “The catalogue of horror continues virtually unabated in many besieged...
A Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)-supported medic based in a small town to the northwest of Idlib city, northwest Syria, explains the fear permeating his daily life as a medic, and the aftermath of a strike on a school - March 2015: By training, I’m a neurologist but over the past three years I have...
Civilians are under relentless attack in Syria’s five-year-old conflict, with 1.9 million people under siege, borders closed to refugees and rampant bombings of medical facilities and heavily populated areas, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans...
(Update on 17 Feburary) The incident has killed at least twenty-five people , among them nine medical personnel,sixteen patients and caretakers,ten others were wounded. The building was completely desturcted. -------------------------- At least seven people were killed, and at least eight are...
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...
Residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya continue to die of starvation, despite the provision of aid in convoys, as the Syrian government-led coalition blocks life-saving medical supplies from the town, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on 29 January (Friday). “It is totally unacceptable...
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...
