Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 63 casualties in a hospital it supports in Hajjah, following a series of night-time airstrikes by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition on a wedding party that took place in a remote, impoverished village in Bani Qays district in Yemen, on Sunday 22 April. “Attacks on civilians are a … Read more
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim recently returned from the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was taken by Syrian Democratic Forces and US-supported Coalition forces from the Islamic State group in October 2017. He spent a month working in a clinic set up by MSF in one of the few houses left standing in the city. Although the … Read more
By Michael Shek, MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. Worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. One cold January morning, a young Syrian man is rushed into an MSF stabilisation unit in Raqqa city, northeast Syria, in a critical condition. Half of his foot has been blown off and … Read more
The story of one of the millions* of children in Syria who have been caught in the middle of a bloody war that they do not understand; one they did not ask for. This graphic novel was first published in The Quint on 6 April 2018
The number of patients injured by landmines, booby traps and explosives doubled between November 2017 and March 2018. Half of the victims were children, some as young as one. This alarming trend comes as more people return home after fighting subsided in the governorates of Raqqa, Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor. MSF urgently calls on all … Read more
By Lorena Bilbao, Operations Coordinator for MSF programmes in Syria Dear colleagues, Over a month has passed since the Syrian government and its allies intensified their military offensive in East Ghouta. Over a month of relentless bombing and shelling, on top of five years of intense siege. Week after week, we tried to support you … Read more
Yesterday afternoon, Thursday 22 March, two airstrikes hit a densely populated neighborhood in the town of Harem (Idlib governorate), resulting in a mass casualty influx of 63 injured and 38 dead to the nearest field hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The medics reported that a popular market was hit by the … Read more
At least 344 wounded and 71 dead every day, 7 days a week, for 2 weeks – non-stop Brussels – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today releases medical data collected from the hospitals and clinics that the independent medical humanitarian organization supports in Syria’s besieged East Ghouta enclave. Covering the first two-week period of … Read more
Geneva: Following a violent attack in Rann, Borno state, on Thursday 1 March, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended its medical activities in the town and evacuated 22 national and international staff. It is still unclear how many people were killed and injured but before leaving, MSF medical staff treated 9 wounded patients. The 40,000 … Read more
MSF calls for an immediate ceasefire to enable the basic human act of helping the sick and wounded Brussels – Casualty numbers in Syria’s besieged East Ghouta enclave are soaring beyond imagination as the capacity to provide healthcare is in its final throes, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) … Read more