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What We're Leaving Behind – Part 3

VICE News correspondent Ben Anderson talks to patients and doctors at a Helmand hospital about their expectations for an Afghanistan free from international intervention.

​As foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan, violence is increasing. Fighting between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban is chaotic and often indiscriminate, and civilian casualties are rising, as Afghans pay the price for the West's failures.

In the final part of our three-part series, VICE News correspondent Ben Anderson speaks with both patients and doctors at NGO Emergency's hospital in Lashkar Gah, and gauges their expectations of an Afghanistan free from international intervention.