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    Taliban Lifts Ban On Red Cross, Pledges To Protect Aid Workers In Afghanistan

    "We welcome the acknowledgment of our humanitarian principles and renewal of security guarantees," says the Red Cross leader in Afghanistan.
    by Bill Chappell Sep 16, 2019 1 minute
    The Taliban says the Red Cross may resume its work in Afghanistan, more than five months after threatening the group. In this photo from March, an orthopedic technician walks past artificial limbs in a workshop at the International Committee of the Red Cross hospital for war victims and the disabled in Kabul.

    The Taliban is rescinding a five-month-old ban that prevented staff with the International Committee of the Red Cross from working in Afghanistan, saying it also will renew security guarantees for the aid workers.

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