Thursday 6 November 2014

Special Report: Left to fight alone, Afghanistan battles to save wounded

Mohammad Zaman walks with his prosthetic legs at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) orthopaedic rehabilitation center in Kabul By Krista Mahr LASHKAR GAH Afghanistan (Reuters) - Omar Gul was on duty at a remote police checkpoint in Helmand's restive district of Sangin when the station came under fire. It was a warm night in mid-September and the battle between Afghanistan's government forces and Taliban militants had been simmering in the southern province all summer. In the end, it was not his employer – the government of Afghanistan – who saved his life. Once the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan, ends its combat mission next month, the 350,000-member Afghan National Security Forces will bear responsibility for fighting an increasingly organized and ambitious Taliban insurgency.




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