PBS NewsHour

Targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned

Clip: 08/15/2016 | 11m 41s

In Syria’s ongoing war, doctors are under attack in the very places they expect to be safe: their hospitals. Last week, pro-government forces bombed a maternity hospital in the northwestern city of Idlib -- just one of the more than 375 strikes on medical facilities since the revolution began, according to Physicians for Human Rights. Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs reports.

Aired: 08/15/16

Rating: NR

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