The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is to cut back “drastically” its operations in Afghanistan.
It follows attacks that have killed seven of its staff this year.
In February the ICRC put all of its operations on hold after six employees died in an assault on an aid convoy.
Activities gradually resumed but last month a Spanish worker was shot dead by one of her patients.
In Kabul the Red Cross said it had no choice but to reduce its presence especially in the north of the country.
“Exposure to risk has become our greatest challenge and concern, we know that there is no zero risk in Afghanistan and we are not aiming at that,” the head of the ICRC delegation in Afghanistan, Monica Zanarelli, told a news conference.
The organisation couldn’t say how many of its 1,800 staff would be affected.
It has operated for over 30 years in Afghanistan; where the humanitarian programme is its fourth largest.
