“They went through the rooms in the maternity, shooting women in their beds. It was methodical,' a Doctors Without Borders representative says.
was meant to pave the way for the Taliban to enter into peace talks with Afghan government officials, representatives of the opposition and members of civil society.
Tension has also arisen over the identification of prisoners and over which Taliban prisoners should be released first, with the government opting for the sick and the elderly who are less likely to return to the battlefield. Following the attacks, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that he had asked Afghan security forces to switch from"defensive" to “offensive” mode and appeared to blame the Taliban for one of the attacks.
ISIS later claimed responsibility for the Nangarhar attack, according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm. However, the firm said Friday they had yet to receive any claims of responsibility for the hospital attack.
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