Syria Faces Alarming Escalation in Attacks on Hospitals

A coalition of medical aid and relief organizations in Syria reports an alarming escalation in attacks on hospitals and medical personnel in the past two months. The activists say hospitals, health workers and ambulances in non-government-controlled areas in Syria have been targeted as a tool of war since the beginning of the crisis in 2011. They say doctors have been detained, tortured, and killed; hospitals and ambulances have been systematically targeted by airstrikes and shelling; and...

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