Relief Agency, Citing Risks, Plans to Leave
From Times Wire Reports
Nobel Prize-winning relief agency Doctors Without Borders announced that it would withdraw from Afghanistan because of the killing of five of its staff and the risk of further attacks.
The group also said it was pulling out because it was unhappy with a government investigation of the June 2 deaths and with the “co-optation of humanitarian aid” by U.S.-led forces there “for military and political motives.”
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