The top commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan says a deadly air strike at a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was requested by Afghan forces.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it has shut down its operations in the Afghan city of Kunduz, after suspected U.S. air strikes on its hospital killed at least 22 people.
Amid a crackdown on international aid workers, the Pakistani government has drafted a bill that would increase the requirements for foreign NGOs to operate in the country
U.S. President Barack Obama has said the Pentagon has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed at least 19 people at an Afghan hospital.
The United Nations has denounced air strikes on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz after at least 19 people were killed, including 12 staff members, four adult patients, and three children.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was partially destroyed after being hit by air strikes overnight, with at least nine staff killed, 37 injured, and many more missing.
Taliban forces are being accused of rape, murder, and other atrocities during their three-day reign over Afghanistan’s strategic city of Kunduz and its 300,000 residents.
Some Taliban fighters remain in Kunduz, a day after Afghan forces recaptured most of the northern city from the militants.
Afghan officials say government troops have recaptured much of the strategic northern city of Kunduz from Taliban insurgents, three days after losing control of the provincial capital in an embarrassing defeat for Kabul and its allies.
An expected Afghan government counteroffensive to retake Kunduz from the Taliban appears to have largely stalled as troops await reinforcements.
The future of Kunduz, a strategic provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, hangs in the balance as Afghan government forces scramble to launch a counteroffensive to retake the city after its fall to the Taliban on September 28.
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