Tuesday, October 24, 2017

One Deadly Bullet Shatters Thousands in Afghanistan

The International Committee of the Red Cross is “first in, last out” of conflict zones. Their scaling back in Afghanistan is a bad sign.


No automatic alt text available.BY ANDREW QUILTY-OCTOBER 23, 2017

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — After seeing six staffers killed and two others go missing already this year, Olivier Chassot, the head of the local Red Cross office here, didn’t want more staff joining and possibly putting themselves in harm’s way.