The SIGAR report, compiled based on interviews of at least 30 former officials, including those close to Ghani, suggests a little over $500,000 million in cash on board the helicopters. Significantly, the fund that Ghani took away was not the government fund but was the leftover amount that the UAE government had provided to Ghani to support his 2019 presidential campaign.
The International Red Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) has said it treated over 4,042 weapon-wounded patients at 15 health facilities in the last ten days alone, indicating the intensity of the recent violence where the country’s health infrastructure has come under intense pressure
Taliban insurgents are going after what is left of main pockets of government resistance in northern Afghanistan as they intensify their attacks on Balkh and Takhar, the two key northern provinces which have resisted the Taliban offensive so far
The Taliban made a major push into big Afghan cities this week, resulting in intense air bombing campaigns from the Afghan Air Force and the US forces in an effort to slow down the Taliban’s offensives
The Taliban on Saturday claimed the capture of the strategically important city Sheberghan, capital of the northern Jowzjan province
The Taliban on Friday assassinated the director of Afghanistan’s Government Information Media Center, days after a failed bid on the country’s defense minister
Afghan special forces have launched a major offensive operation in Lashkargah, the besieged provincial center of the southern province of Helmand, as thousands of soldiers from special forces rushed to the city
At least eight people were killed and twenty were wounded when gunmen stormed the house of Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Mohammadi, just minutes after a powerful car bomb exploded there in the Afghan capital, Kabul
Until a few days ago, it was uncertain if Herat, a western Afghan city encircled by insurgents from three sides, would survive the Taliban onslaught or not
As Afghanistan is plunged in a civil war between government forces and the marauding Taliban, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said at least 1,677 civilians were killed and 3,644 were wounded in the first six months of this year, a whopping 80 percent increase in relation to the same period last year
Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan was attacked last night when at least rockets hit its airfield, bringing all fight operations to a halt
A United Nations office in western Afghanistan came under fire and one of its Afghan guards was killed and other guards were injured as fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan security forces intensified
The first batch of Afghan refugees--more than 200 in number, mostly children--who were at risk of facing retribution from the emboldened Taliban reached the United States this week, with US President Biden saying he was proud to welcome them
Nazar Mohammad, popularly known as Khasha Jawan, made people laugh for years in Afghanistan
The head of the Afghan Parliament’s Internal Security Commission has accused the Office of National Security Council (ONSC) of “incompetence” and “interference” in the works of other security agencies
The United States will continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attacks from the insurgent Taliban, the chief of CentComm said, as foreign forces have drawn down troops in Afghanistan
