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‘Look for Hospitals as Targets’: The historical record suggests that the US bombing of an Afghan hospital was no accident. Archived 16 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine Greg Grandin for The Nation. 5 October 2015. Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) "Internal Review, Attack on Kunduz Trauma Centre" (5 November 2015).
That same month two hospitals in Maarrat al-Nu'man were attacked by Syrian forces, one being a Doctors Without Borders supported facility; [18] Syria claimed that one of the attacks was done by American forces. [19] In July 2016, a hospital was attacked by Russian forces in Atarib. [14]
United States - The US State Department was "outraged by yesterday’s airstrikes in Aleppo on the al-Quds hospital supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which killed dozens of people, including children, patients, and medical personnel." [15]
"Whether we live or die seems to be dependent on the ebbs and flows of the battlefield. ... We took a pledge to help those in need."
The hospital is in an opposition-held enclave in northwest Syria, an area which bore the brunt of Russian and Syrian bombing during the country's conflict, which killed hundreds of thousands, and ...
Syria holds strategic importance for Moscow and Tehran, which have both bolstered Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at critical moments. Why the Syrian conflict is so important for Russia and ...
On 18 February 2016, a barrel bomb struck a hospital, supported by Doctors Without Borders, in East Ghouta. [234] From 24–25 February 2016, over a 24-hour period, at least 50 barrel bombs were dropped on Darayya; [235] on 26 February 2016, dozens more barrel bombs were dropped on Darayya. [236]
Roughly 100 people were killed in a gas attack in Syria earlier this year, prompting medics to learn more about the weapons and how to react. ... Syrian doctors rush to a house where white smoke ...