The United Nations is to pull its non-essential foreign staff out of Afghanistan temporarily after a deadly Taliban attack on a guesthouse for UN workers, a spokesman said Thursday.
"Around 600 non-Afghan staff will be temporarily relocated," Dan McNorton told AFP.
"The only people who will remain are regarded as essential staff."
Nearly all the 600 will leave the country although a small number could be relocated within Afghanistan, he added.
The decision comes eight days after a Taliban attack on a hostel in Kabul in which five UN workers were killed.
