Kabul Red Cross aiding victims of war is determined to remain open: 'Please do not forget Afghanistan'

As thousands of people risked their lives attempting to flee Afghanistan during the withdrawal of U.S. forces last month, Italian physiotherapist Alberto Cairo, working at the clinic he has led in Kabul for more than three decades, felt horror.

Cairo came to Kabul in 1990, dispatched by the International Committee of the Red Cross to care for victims of war, often supplying prosthetic limbs for amputees injured by land mines. He never left and decided against taking an evacuation flight as the Taliban returned to power. "The ICRC is supposed to work in places at war," he said. "If humanitarian organizations do not stay, who should stay?" Cairo says much of Kabul is quiet, as residents wait for clarity on what life will be like under the Taliban.