FILE PHOTO: Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch at the gate of an army headquarters after an attack in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 22, 2017. REUTERS/Anil Usyan/File Photo
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Samad always worried that something might happen to his brother, Shah Mohammad, a three-year veteran of the Afghan army, even though his job was to train soldiers, not to fight.
"He used to tell us that since he doesn't go to the battlefield, he was fine inside the base," Samad said.
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