The USA keep their troops in Afghanistan longer. The major part of 2016, the strength is maintained at 9800 people. Then the number of troops will be reduced gradually. President Obama makes the decision Thursday to the world.
The Taliban in Afghanistan are not driven out of the city of Kunduz but have withdrawn to protect the population. That the militants Tuesday declared himself.
In the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, a bomb attack perpetrated on a convoy of foreign troops . A spokesman for the Interior Ministry there are victims , but it is unknown yet how much.
The United States will pay compensation to the families of the victims who died in the bombing of a hospital of Doctors without Borders ( MSF) in the Afghan city of Kunduz. That the US Department of Defense announced Saturday . The US has also promised that they will pay for the reconstruction of the hospital.
After the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz are still 33 people missing, including 24 Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF) . That the representative of MSF in Afghanistan Thursday declared , according to US media .
US President Barack Obama has personally apologized to MSF for the bloody raid on a hospital of that organization in the Afghan city of Kunduz. That the White House on Wednesday. Obama telephoned the head of MSF, Joanne Liu.
Aid organization Doctors Without Borders wants an international Swiss-based body examines the US attack on the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. It is founded in the 1991 International Humanitarian Fact -Finding Commission ( IHFFC ), stands in a statement distributed Wednesday by MSF . It would be the first mission of this committee that sits in Bern .
The US air raid on a hospital in Kunduz was a mistake of the US command in that country. The attack was done at the request of the Afghan armed forces. This said the US commander of the troops involved in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell , at a parliamentary inquiry .
