Underground hospitals were a staple during World War II, to protect patients and medical personnel from aerial bombardment. Seven decades on, such secret, makeshift health care centers are crucial ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Ahmad Tarakji, president of the Syrian American Medical Society, who says hospitals in Syria are being targeted during airstrikes conducted by government forces.

The underground medical networks sprang up because many residents deemed it too dangerous to travel through government checkpoints to the main provincial hospital in the nearby city of Idlib.

Holding Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime accountable for war crimes 13:21 "The medical staff was in a state of panic," said Omar Halaq, the director of the hospital in Atareb, also ...

Syrian American Medical Society sends medicine and supplies to war ravaged countries By Tammy Leitner and Lisa Capitanini • Published December 8, 2014 • Updated on December 9, 2014 at 4:06 pm ...

“The ‘cave’ is the system used by medical societies to move hospitals underground after the Russians entered Syria and started using heavy bombs in the cities,” says the 35-year-old Fayyad ...

Syrian refugees and doctors both find it hard to participate in Turkey's medical system—so they've taken health care underground.

Dr Khaled Almilaji head of the Sustainable International Medical Relief Organisation, who spearheaded the project, said: “The underground Avicenna Hospital will offer security to Syrian medical ...

ISTANBUL. A Syrian pediatrician who helped run a hidden underground hospital in the suburb of Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus says she saved thousands of lives during the ...

Air strikes hit underground cave hospital near Hama, medical workers accuse government of using bunker-busting bombs. ... Even in a bunker under a mountain, Syrian hospital knocked out by strikes.