BASSAM HUSSEIN

Trump's foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in vulnerable region of Syria to close

Fares had been working in three clinics run by Medecins du Monde, or Doctors of the World, offering free health care to the displaced population in northern Syria, which until the fall of former President Bashar Assad in December had been the country's main rebel-held enclave. It sheltered millions of people who had fled years of civil war.