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17 attacks on Libyan health centers this year: U.N.

Seventeen attacks have been recorded since January against health facilities in Tripoli and its suburbs, the scene of deadly fighting for over a year, the UN mission in Libya said Friday. There have been "17 attacks/shelling on health facilities" in Libya since the start of this year, the...

Afghan hospital attackers 'came to kill mothers': MSF

Gunmen who stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital this week had come to "kill the mothers," a medical charity said, as survivors expressed shock and horror at the gruesome attack. At least 24 people were killed -- including newborns, mothers and nurses -- when three armed men rampaged...

Iraqi doctor's fight with virus lays bare a battered system

Dr. Marwa al-Khafaji’s homecoming after 20 days in a hospital isolation ward was met by spite. Someone had barricaded her family home’s gate with a concrete block. The message from the neighbors was clear: She had survived coronavirus, but the stigma surrounding the disease would be a...