Syria: Overburdened health services and overcrowded host centres
February 27, 2026When renewed clashes in mid-July 2025 forced thousands of people in Sweida governorate, Syria, to flee their homes, many families believed it would be a short displacement. Eight months later, there is increasing pressure on host communities and overstretched health...
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Syria: Families in Northwest Syria face harsh winter conditions
February 10, 2026In Syria, despite the end of the war, people continue to live with the heavy legacy of fourteen years of brutal conflict. Years of aerial attacks and protracted hostilities, including in rural areas around Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and Idlib, have destroyed homes and essential infrastructure, left countless families with no choice but to flee. Many families sought shelters...
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Syria: Helping care reach people in Daraya after years of war
January 30, 2026In late 2024, families in Syria began returning to places they had not seen for years during the war. For many, the journey back to towns like Daraya in rural Damascus followed years of displacement, mov-ing between temporary shelters, overcrowded...
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Syria: Escalation in northeast Syria and MSF response
January 22, 2026Northeast Syria has recently witnessed a military escalation in Raqqa, Deir ez Zor, and Hassakeh governorates, where Médecins Sans Frontières operates, exposing civilians to renewed insecurity, forcing them to flee their homes in Tabqa, Raqqa, Hassakeh and other parts of...
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Syria: Addressing people’s medical needs in Dara’a
December 19, 2025Damascus, Syria- Twelve months after the fall of Bashar Al-Asad’s government, people and communities in southern Syria now have more options to access healthcare, as teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are working in this part of the country for the...
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Battling the ghost of torture in Syria
August 27, 2025In Syria’s prisons and security branches, the darkness of the unknown overpowered the darkness of detention cells. During nearly 14 years of war, arbitrary arrests grew more common, with many people held in custody without trial or investigation. Many survivors...
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MSF expands support responding to unmet needs in Syria
July 31, 2025The fall of the former government of Syria on 8 December 2024 was a significant turning point in the country after nearly 14 years of war. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has gained access to previously inaccessible areas under...
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Syria: MSF opens emergency room in Daraya
April 8, 2025Daraya, Syria- After 14 years of war, Syria has been left with large-scale destruction, massive displacement, economic hardship and a lack of basic services, including healthcare. In response, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started planning...
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Syria: MSF mobile clinics bring care to the neglected region of east Ghouta
February 7, 2025After years of neglect, east Ghouta, a region located only 10 kilometres from Damascus, shows little signs of normalcy, the streets lined with the ruins of buildings are empty of the signs of life. The people here are struggling under...
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Syria: Obstacles to maternity care shatter women’s hopes for a safe pregnancy
November 12, 2024The 13-year-long war in Syria, the earthquake in February 2023 and the lack of international support to rebuild healthcare infrastructure have deprived pregnant women and new mothers of their most fundamental right of access to adequate and dignified maternity care,...
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Syria: The invisible wounds that quietly deepen
November 6, 2024After more than 13 years of war, displacement and ongoing humanitarian crises, the inevitable outcome of this suffering is a widespread mental health crisis that is affecting countless people. At the end of a suicide awareness session, my patients told...
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The humanitarian isolation of northwest Syria must be prevented
July 6, 2023Amman, 5 July, 2023 - Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to renew the cross-border resolution (UNSCR 2672) for the delivery of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria. Ensuring increased, expanded, and...
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