Fighting erupted anew in the embattled northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Tuesday after the Taliban attacked a police headquarters overnight and officials warned that food and other emergency aid cannot get through to the city.
The clashes and the dire warnings underscored the tenuous hold authorities have on Kunduz, a strategic city whose brief fall to the Taliban last week was an embarrassing blow to President Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government has also been criticized for ignoring warnings of the city's vulnerability to Taliban attack. The bombing early Saturday of a hospital in Kunduz operated by Doctors Without Borders in which at least 22 people were killed has raised wider questions as to the circumstances that led to the prominent medical charity being hit in a US airstrike.