12-24 | 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 December.
12-15 | Dr. Marwan* worked with MSF in Tal Abyad, northern Syria. After refusing a job offer from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, he knew his life was in danger, and made the hard decision to leave for Europe. “I was a paediatric doctor in Syria, married with two children. We lived in Raqqa, now known as the stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
12-12 | 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 include the 14 MSF staff members confirmed to have been killed, as well as 24 patients and 4 caretakers (relatives that provided additional nursing care for the patients in the hospital).
12-9 | 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 consent to an independent investigation of the deadly U.S.
12-8 | 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 Borders (MSF), warning that it may be forced to close its own hospital in the Aleppo province.