http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/15/middleeast/syria-hospitals-strike/index.html
Fifteen people were killed when a hospital and a school building that was housing displaced people were struck in Azaz, in Syria's Aleppo province, according to a hospital worker on the scene. A hospital employee known as Moudhar told CNN that staff members were evacuating the wounded after the first strike on the Women and Children's Hospital when the complex and a road leading to the Turkish border were struck again. Speaking in Kiev, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed Russia for the strikes in Azaz, which is close to the Turkish border, claiming Moscow had targeted the complex with ballistic missiles fired from the Caspian Sea.Turkish defense minister: 'No intention' of sending ground troops into Syria.
Nine dead, eight missing in IdlibIn a separate attack, a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders at Maarat al-Numan in Syria's Idlib province was destroyed after being struck four times within minutes, the medical humanitarian organization said."The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict," he said. Chaos in northern SyriaNorthern Syria has been the scene of intense fighting recently, with Syrian regime forces, backed by Russian air power, pursuing a major offensive on the key city Aleppo, and Turkey bombarding Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, near Azaz over the weekend.
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