ISLAMABAD—The new commander of the U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized to residents of Kunduz for a U.S. airstrike on a hospital that killed 42 people. U.S. Army General John Nicholson met in Kunduz with representatives of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders and family members of the victims to express his condolences over what […]
Officials say U.S. personnel who were involved in the devastating, half-hour aerial attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan have been or will be punished. Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S.-Central Command said “those individuals most closely associated with the incident have been suspended from their duties and were referred for administrative […]
A top U.S. military commander says American forces were to blame for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. U.S. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washington that Afghan forces requested the airstrike on the hospital operated by the international medical charity Doctors […]