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 Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, issued a decree on Friday, announcing a ban on forced marriages of women—which has become rampant amid worsening social and economic conditions—and said the consent of adult women was necessary for marriages
The value of Afghanistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is forecast to likely contract further by several billions, as per a UN body report
Iranian border forces and Taliban fighters clashed—for the first since the group’s return to power— along the border for several hours in the western Nimroz province in Afghanistan, media reports said
The Taliban-led government has rejected a recent report by an international human rights watchdog that said the group had executed dozens of Afghan security members after they surrendered following the fall of civilian government earlier this year
The United States has asked the Taliban to fulfill its “commitments” on counter-terrorism, human rights, and general amnesty when the officials of both sides met in Doha
Over 100 police and intelligence officers of the former Afghan government have been abducted, killed, and “summarily executed” by the Taliban since the group took over power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report
Afghanistan's air force, comprising abandoned Russian and American helicopters, held its first military exercises since the Taliban came to power, Afghan media reported
In another bid to control the shrinking media space in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led government has issued an order restricting the media outlets from publishing anything against the interest of the Taliban administration
The World Food Program (WFP), in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has begun providing cash aid to dozens of vulnerable families in west of Kabul. WFP’s zone manager, Daoud Ghaznawi said that each family would receive 7,000 Afs in cash
Prices of primary items, mainly food and fuel, have shot up by almost 100 percent in Afghanistan as its residents face severe food and energy shortage
Over 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary visas into the US, but so far only 100 of them have been approved
Officials from Germany, the Netherlands, and Iran have held discussions with Taliban leaders in Kabul this week on a range of issues, including on humanitarian assistance, amid the worsening crisis in Afghanistan
Amid the grave situation faced by the journalists and media workers in Afghanistan, a new media watchdog has been set up in Kabul
Afghanistan will face a new civil war, a top Russian security official has warned, if the Taliban and the world community fail to normalize the situation in the war-ravaged, food-starved country soon
At least two people were killed and over two dozen were wounded on Friday when a bomb exploded in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan amid the fear of growing ISKP threat following the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government in August this year
