Browsing: Al Jazeera

The Medecins Sans Frontiers trauma centre in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah is one of only three referral hospitals in the country’s south, and serves approximately one million people stranded in the war zone. Here, under-resourced health workers treat malnourished babies, landmine victims and car crash injuries against a backdrop of gunfire and shelling

“If we believe what they say, and I do…They’re baiting us,” said Lydia Wilson. Wilson, who recently interviewed ISIL fighters in northern Iraq, believes ISIL wants Western countries to attack them at home. “They’re inspiring terror and drawing the Western powers, or the unbelieving powers… into wars that they cannot afford or draw them directly into the region not just by proxies… [Terror attacks] produce the response that we are giving them.