Special Report - Left to fight alone, Afghanistan battles to save wounded


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 Nov 2014

A soldier of the Afghan national army has a check-up at a hospital in Camp Thunder in Paktia province, August 14, 2014. Picture taken August 14, 2014. REUTERS/Krista Mahr

LASHKAR GAH Afghanistan (Reuters) - Omar Gul was on duty at a remote police checkpoint in Helmand's restive district of Sangin when the station came under fire.

It was a warm night in mid-September and the battle between Afghanistan's government forces and Taliban militants had been simmering in the southern province all summer.

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