Rahmatullah Yarmal, the governor of Afghan’s Laghman province, on Monday, narrowly escaped a suicide bombing which killed at least eight people, including four of his bodyguards
Ghani fled Kabul with less than a million dollars, says report
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.
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President Ghani heads to Kuwait and Qatar
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The Afghan government has fulfilled 'almost 90 percent' of its commitments made to international partners in order to secure continued assistance, the acting minister of finance, Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, said on Saturday
15 killed in Afghan car bomb explosion
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Abdullah says differences ‘partly’ resolved with Taliban
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'Taliban must reduce violence'
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Khalilzad renews call on Afghans to agree on political settlement
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has again called on Afghan political leaders and the Taliban to agree on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the country and avoid repeating “past mistakes.”
Khalilzad meets Taliban in Doha amid delay in intra-Afghan talks
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, on Thursday, met with the Taliban deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and their chief negotiator Mawlawi Abdul Hakim in Doha amidst delay in the start of the direct negotiations between both sides of the talks
Doha talks need patience, not mediators: Taliban
The Taliban has said that it does not feel the need for a mediator for the Afghan peace negotiations, adding that resolving a 40-year conflict requires patience instead, the media reported
Taliban shows no flexibility in peace: Afghan minister
The Taliban is a "monopolist" group that does not show flexibility in the peace process, and that their view towards justice for victims of violence is political rather than rights-based, an Afghan Minister said
