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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) frequently publishes updates, press releases, and other forms of communication about its work in more than 60 countries around the world. See the list below for the most recent updates or search by location, topic, or year.

Field news

Healing wounds of war in the Middle East

April 05, 2018

Ahmed was 14 years old when he lost his left arm. “I had gone out to press olives,” remembers the young Syrian. “We were on our way home. A plane flew by and dropped a barrel bomb that exploded, and shrapnel hit my hand. It felt like there was something dripping on my leg. I looked at my arm. It was completely torn off. There was one thread that held my arm to my body. I asked myself, ‘What’s going to happen to me now? It’s finished. I’m dead.’”
In the News

Unreported World: Inside the Hospital Helping the War Torn Generation

November 17, 2017

Unreported World visits the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan, where teams provide treatment to patients from Yemen and elsewhere.
Slideshow

Traumatized by the War in Syria, and Recovering

March 26, 2015

Omar Al Balkhi, 29, was injured in a bomb blast in Daraa, Syria, and treated first in a field hospital.

Video

Physiotherapy in Emergency Settings

May 14, 2014

MSF increasingly calls on the services of physiotherapists during its emergency interventions. Integral to post-surgery, their work is key to the delivery of quality care.