Doctors Without Borders said it took the wrenching decision not to formally inform Syria’s government or its Russian allies about the location of some medical facilities such as the one hit by a deadly airstrike this week.

Wounded Taliban fighters were being treated in an Afghan hospital bombed by US forces but there were no armed men or fighting in the area, Doctors Without Borders said.

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders has withdrawn from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz after a deadly air strike destroyed its hospital.

The Director of Programmes with aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is visiting Ireland to raise awareness about the escalating conflict in Yemen.