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03/03/2016
Rights group Amnesty International has accused the Syrian government and Russian forces of deliberately targeting hospitals as a strategy of war in Syria's conflict. It says the attacks amount to war crimes.
03/02/2016
Attacks against hospitals and clinics from Afghanistan to South Sudan and Yemen have grown distressingly common in recent years, killing hundreds, forcing the shuttering of numerous medical facilities, and adding to the misery of already war-torn nations.
02/23/2016
Curfews and other restrictions on civilian movement imposed by the Government of Turkey have blocked ambulance transport and prevented wounded and sick civilians from obtaining emergency health and rescue services. As a result, people in need of urgent medical attention have sometimes been trapped in buildings, and many have died.
02/22/2016
The double attack on the Médecins Sans Frontières-supported hospital in Idlib Governorate, Syria on Monday killed 9 staff and 16 patients, a death toll expected to rise as the rubble is cleared. Michiel Hofman, MSF Senior Humanitarian Specialist takes a look at the parties involved in this conflict and the victims of the war.
02/22/2016
Afghan security forces, possibly accompanied by NATO advisers, raided a hospital south of Kabul and abducted and then killed at least three men suspected of being insurgents, hospital officials and residents said on Thursday.
02/19/2016
After a US airstrike in October destroyed an MSF hospital in Kunduz—the only trauma center like it in the country’s north—Afghans like Burhanuddin now have to travel 200 miles to receive life-saving treatment. The journey takes hours, sometimes days by car.
02/18/2016
KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghan security forces, possibly accompanied by NATO advisers, raided a hospital south of Kabul, handcuffed hospital staff, and abducted and killed at least three men suspected of being insurgents.
02/18/2016
As a result of fighting that erupted in the Malakal Protection of Civilian (PoC) site in Malakal, South Sudan, at least 18 people were killed, two of them MSF South Sudanese staff members who were attacked in their homes.
02/17/2016
A new report presents a documented analysis of the medical and humanitarian consequences of the intensification of the military campaign in 2015, based on medical reports and data from 70 clinics and hospitals in Syria supported by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
02/17/2016
Two bombs struck the Al-Wahda Hospital compound in the Bab Tobruk area, killing at least two civilians, including a child, and causing extensive damage.