Hospitals overwhelmed in Damascus

Thursday, February 22, 2018

BEIRUT -- Doctors in Syria's rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus said Wednesday they were unable to keep up with the staggering number of casualties, amid a ferocious bombing campaign by government forces targeting hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.

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