the international president barack obama telephoned msf staff .
on wednesday morning , obama called and president barack obama has apologized to doctors without borders for the u.s. bombing of the international medical charity 's hospital that killed 22 people last weekend in kunduz , afghanistan .
taliban insurgents have taken parts of the northern afghan washington geneva u.s. president barack obama on wednesday apologized to medecins sans frontieres for the deadly bombing of its hospital in kunduz , afghanistan , while the medical charity pressed its demand for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime .
in a statement issued wednesday afternoon , liu acknowledged receiving obama 's call , but repeated her earlier demand for an independent panel to conduct an investigation under the geneva conventions , " to establish what happened in kunduz , how it happened and why it happened . "
white house spokesman josh earnest said obama called the medical group 's president , dr. joanne liu , to " apologize and express condolences . "
msf said that an independent investigation by a never - before - used international commission .
 
he said obama " is very eager to get to the bottom of what exactly occurred . "
but he did n't go far enough , according to doctors without borders , the aid group whose hospital in the afghan city of kunduz was hit by a deadly u.s. airstrike .