Dozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria have protested a decision to grant President Bashar Assad’s government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization
Dozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria on Monday protested a decision to grant President Bashar Assad s government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization. They said Assad is responsible for bombing hospitals and clinics across the war-ravaged country.
Medical workers in Syria have protested furiously after the country’s government was elevated to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) executive board. They took to the streets in rebel-held Idlib after learning the regime of Bashar al-Assad had been appointed to the body after a vote that faced no debate or opposition. The WHO’s executive board members hold three-year terms. They set the agenda for its health assembly – the decision-making body.
BEIRUT: Dozens of medical workers in opposition-held northwest Syria on Monday protested a decision to grant Bashar Assad’s regime a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization. They said Assad is responsible for bombing hospitals and clinics across the war-ravaged country. The decision to give Syria a seat came a decade into the country’s devastating civil
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Aftermath As Deadly Blast Rocks North-west Syria
Aftermath as deadly blast rocks north-west Syria
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1. Wide of smoke in the sky
2. Activists from the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as White Helmets, looking under rubble
3. Various of rubble
5. Pan of rubble, White Helmets at work
6. Wide of ambulance coming into a tented settlement, close to the explosion site
7. Wide of settlement
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A mysterious explosion rocked northwest Syria Monday killing at least one person and wounding seven others, opposition activists said.
The activists said the explosion occurred as an armed drone flew over the outskirts of the village of Foua in Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold in the war-torn country.