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Hey, Wasn't The U.S. Supposed To Stop Fighting In Afghanistan?

4:38pm October 07, 2015

by Greg Myre

The U.S. airstrike on a hospital has shown the military is still deeply involved in Afghanistan's war. The U.S. has flown more than 3,300 sorties and fired on the enemy more than 600 times this year.

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Obama Apologizes To Doctors Without Borders For Kunduz Hospital Attack

4:36pm October 07, 2015

by Quil Lawrence

Doctors Without Borders calls on President Obama and 75 other Geneva signatories to investigate the Kunduz, Afghanistan, bombing by activating the never before used fact-finding commission of the Geneva Conventions.

Doctors Without Borders President Joanne Liu (right) is calling for an international fact-finding investigation into a U.S. airstrike on one of the charity's hospitals.

Doctors Without Borders Wants Independent Inquiry Into U.S. Attack On Hospital

4:29pm October 07, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Twelve of those who died were staff members of the Paris-based charity, which says the attack went on for 30 minutes after it contacted both Afghanistan's and the coalition's military leaders.

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Gen. Campbell Tells Senators White House's Afghan Plan May Change

2:28pm October 07, 2015

by Tom Bowman

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, tells senators he is drawing up plans to keep a larger number of U.S. troops in the country next year than originally planned.

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Sen. McCain Expects A Permanent U.S. Presence In Afghanistan

7:53am October 07, 2015

Steve Inskeep talks to Sen. John McCain about Afghanistan. McCain chaired an Armed Services Committee hearing with testimony from the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell.

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U.S. Commander In Afghanistan Says Kunduz Hospital 'Mistakenly Struck'

8:04pm October 06, 2015

by David Welna

At the first Congressional hearing on the fighting in Afghanistan since a U.S. plane fired on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, the top U.S. commander is in the hot seat. Gen. John Campbell is expected to face questions Tuesday about why the hospital was targeted, as the White House mulls keeping a residual force of up to 5,000 in Afghanistan beyond 2016.

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U.S. General Says Afghan Forces Requested Airstrike At Kunduz Hospital

2:22pm October 06, 2015

by Tom Bowman

The top U.S. officer in Iraq, Gen. John Campbell, says the airstrike Saturday was targeting Taliban forces in Kunduz. A hospital nearby was hit, killing 22 people, including three children.

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Afghan Government Is Relatively Silent On Airstrike That Hit Hospital

6:41pm October 05, 2015

Over the weekend in Kunduz, 22 people were killed in an airstrike that hit a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. Renee Montagne talks to Ted Callahan, a Western security adviser in Afghanistan.

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The burned Doctors Without Borders hospital is seen after explosions in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders says 12 staff members and 10 patients were killed in the attack and 37 others were wounded.

Doctors Without Borders: Kunduz Airstrike Was 'War Crime'

3:00pm October 05, 2015

by Scott Neuman

A hospital was hit while U.S. forces were conducting an airstrike in the Afghan city; the aid group says 22 people were killed. NATO has said it will conduct an investigation into the attack.

German official Philipp Ackermann gives a speech with military translator Mohamed Oda in 2006, while heading the Provincial Reconstruction Team.

'A Shocking Development' In The Long Struggle To Hold On To Kunduz

2:31pm October 05, 2015

by Rachel Martin

The U.S. and NATO have spent years in Kunduz, Afghanistan, building communities to keep insurgents out. Two who were there 12 years ago describe how it felt this week when the Taliban retook the city.

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