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Doctors Without Borders Rejects EU Funds Over Migrant Policies

11:44am June 17, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The aid group explained the decision by criticizing the EU's deal with Turkey to deport migrants who reach Europe. "We cannot take funds from those who do so much harm," the organization said.

A woman walks between two of the tents that house the hospital wards. Most of the camp's residents are women and children.

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Reporter's Notebook: 'Embedded' With Doctors Without Borders

7:00am May 28, 2016

by Marc Silver

Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his week at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.

People gather their belongings Friday as they leave a refugee camp because of an Islamic State offensive near Azaz, Syria.

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Doctors Without Borders Evacuating Key Syrian Hospital Amid ISIS Offensive

1:27pm May 27, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

ISIS reportedly has seized villages near Syria's border with Turkey, trapping tens of thousands of civilians. The evacuated hospital outside Azaz is the aid group's largest medical facility in Syria.

These are some of the 500 people who work at the MSF hospital: medical staff, construction workers, administrative personnel who keep the place running. Some are foreigners; others are South Sudanese refugees who live in the camp.

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Five Days And Five Nights With Doctors Without Borders

8:50pm May 25, 2016

They're in a crowded refugee camp, running the only hospital in a war-torn corner of South Sudan.

Issues on the table at the World Humanitarian Summit range from conflict zones to refugees. Above, a herder moves his goats at the Dadaab refugee camp, created nearly 25 years ago. The Kenyan government now threatens to shut it down.

Why Doctors Without Borders Is Skipping The World Humanitarian Summit

7:58pm May 20, 2016

by Meghan Sullivan

The group pulled out this month, citing concerns that nations won't have to follow through on commitments made at the summit. We spoke with Executive Director Jason Cone.

A member of Doctors Without Borders looks out over the general hospital in the Central African Republic's capital city, Bangui, in April 2014.

Doctors Without Borders Suspends Work In Parts Of Central African Republic

2:46pm May 20, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The group says armed men killed a staff member during an attack on a convoy that lasted more than 40 minutes. It's one of many recent attacks worldwide on the group's staff.

Injured Doctors Without Borders staff find shelter in a safe room after an airstrike on their hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

As War Dangers Multiply, Doctors Without Borders Struggles To Adapt

6:39pm May 10, 2016

by Jackie Northam

More airstrikes. More kidnappings. How will the medical aid group protect its workers, patients and hospitals in a more threatening world?

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Firefighters combat a blaze on April 29, after regime helicopters targeted a medical center in an opposition-controlled region of Aleppo, Syria.

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A Cease-Fire In Name Alone

8:27am April 30, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon considers the breathtaking toll of the violence in Syria.

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U.S. Service Members Disciplined In Mistaken Bombing Of Afghan Hospital

8:14pm April 28, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The airstrikes killed 42 people at a civilian hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in October 2015. U.S. officials say personnel attacked the wrong target.

The al-Quds Hospital in Aleppo is one of seven health facilities that have been bombed in Syria in 2016.

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Syria Hospital Bombing: Are The Rules Of War Blowing Up?

7:00pm April 28, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

The destruction of a hospital in Aleppo is part of a disturbing trend. And it's not just happening in Syria.