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: Shelters overwhelmed as reсent fighting forces mass displacement
February 20, 2026Fourteen years of conflict have left Syria deeply scarred, and for many people in the northeast, displacement continues to shape daily life. One year after the fall of the previous government, renewed fighting in mid-January 2026 displaced tens of thousands...
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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: 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 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: 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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Syria: “Where growing medical needs converge with shrinking funds”
May 24, 2024Amman, Brussels – International financial support to the health system in northern Syria is in decline. The medical needs in the region far exceed the available medical services, with Syrian people bearing the greatest burden due to limited support and...
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Northwest Syria: The military escalations worsen the already-dire humanitarian situation
November 14, 2023Since 3 October, the escalation of hostilities in northwest Syria has taken a huge toll on the people living in the area and had inflicted devastating consequences on health facilities. At least 78,000 people have been reportedly displaced, while efforts...
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The non-renewal of the cross-border resolution by the United Nations Security Council is an inexcusable failure towards the Syrian people
August 8, 2023Amman/Jordan, 8 August, 2023 - The failure of the United Nations’ Security Council to renew the cross-border resolution safeguarding access to vital humanitarian aid for north-western Syria is inexcusable. People living in this area lost a vital way to receive...
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