Medecins Sans Frontiers Pulls Out of Afghanistan

"The aid agency has been in Afghanistan since 1980 - through the Soviet occupation, the mujahideen resistance, the Taliban's rule and the US-led war to end it.

Today, however, MSF announced the 'heartbreaking' decision to pull out of Afghanistan, only the second time the agency has been forced to abandon a country (the first was North Korea). The agency's 80 international staff will leave by the end of August. Its 1,400 local staff will lose their jobs. "

MSF says the US-backed Kabul puppet government "lacks the will" to investigate a recent attack on MSF staff, leaving the agency accused of political partisanship and therefore unable to continue their work in the country.

More at the Guardian.