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The Pentagon says it didn't intend to kill 42 people.
Dr. Kathleen Thomas was working as an intensive care doctor in the Kunduz Trauma Center when U.S. airstrikes struck. She describes a typical day in the hospital and events that unfolded during the week leading up to the attack.
Six months ago, Evangeline Cua was operating on a patient in the Kunduz Trauma Center when U.S. airstrikes turned her world upside down. These are her memories from that fateful night.
After U.S. airstrikes destroyed a Kunduz hospital, Afghans must travel for days to reach life-saving treatment.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Airstrikes hit 112 Syrian medical facilities in 2015 and 13 so far this year.
Two servicemen have told Congress that American special forces called in an air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan because they believed the Taliban were using it as a command center.
There are mounting indications the U.S. military relied heavily on Afghan allies who resented the internationally run Doctors Without Borders hospital.
"MSF doctors and other medical staff were shot while running to reach safety in a different part of the compound."
Russia and Syria had been intensifying their air offensives in west and northwest Syria.
Rep. John Garamendi is also calling for the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate.