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Residents inspect a site damaged by an airstrike in Hafsarja, in the insurgent stronghold of Idlib province, Syria May 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Syrian Regime, Russia Stop Raids on Idlib

by Youssef Diab | Oct 1, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut– After 11 consecutive days of heavy raids, Russian and Syrian regime forces stopped their air strikes over Idlib governorate which began to enjoy some calmness since Friday-Saturday midnight. Experts believe that the raids had stopped following several...

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Migrants in a detention center before being voluntarily returned to their countries of origin. Tripoli, 29 August. [Hani Amara/REUTERS]

Haftar Declines to Attend Congo Summit… Sudan Denies Closing its Borders with Libya

by Khalid Mahmoud | Sep 8, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – The Commander of the Libyan Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, was absent on Thursday from an African summit on the Libyan crisis held in the Congolese capital Brazzaville. A media official at Haftar’s office said that the general had officially apologized...

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The US airstrike on the MSF facility in Kunduz killed 42 people in October 2015 (AFP Photo/NAJIM RAHIM)

Kunduz Medical Facility Reopened after Deadly Bombing

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 22, 2017 | World

The international Medecins Sans Frontiers in Afghanistan on Saturday reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province where nearly two years ago an airstrike destroyed their hospital, killing over 40. The new facility, which has one doctor and five nurses,...

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Iraqi soldiers gather to go battle against ISIS militants south of Mosul, Iraq, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

MSF: Mosul Population ‘Traumatized’ by Conflict

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 6, 2017 | Middle East

The population of Mosul has endured huge suffering in the war to retake the northern Iraqi city from terror group ISIS and trauma cases among civilians are sharply rising in the last stages of battle, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday. The city’s...

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Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near Raqqa. DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images

More Civilians Flee Syria’s Raqqa as Battle Looms

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 2, 2017 | Middle East

London, Paris- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that the number of people fleeing Raqqa, ISIS’ Syrian stronghold, is growing rapidly. About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city...