Doctors Without Borders (MSF) evacuated most of its staff and patients from al-Salamah hospital - the organisation's largest facility in the country - near the town of Azaz in Aleppo province on Friday as ISIL neared.
"We are terribly concerned about the fate of our hospital and our patients, and about the estimated 100,000 people trapped between the Turkish border and active frontlines," Pablo Marco, MSF operations manager for the Middle East, said in a statement.
"For some months, the frontline has been around seven kilometres away from the hospital. Now it is only three kilometres from al-Salamah town. There is nowhere for people to flee to as the fighting gets closer."
ISIL, also known as ISIS, has cut off a key road between rebel-held Azaz, close to the Turkish border, and nearby Marea, journalist Maamoun Khateeb told the AFP news agency from Azaz.
"This is a disaster," Khateeb said, adding that some 15,000 people were now besieged in Marea.
Turkey has closed its border to all but seriously wounded Syrians.
Marea and Azaz fell to opposition forces in 2012 and have been vital stops along a rebel supply route from Turkey.
ISIL has tried to advance on the towns for months. In a statement on Friday, it said it had launched a "surprise attack" and seized a series of villages near Azaz....
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
28/5/16
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