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.
Two suicide bombers attacked a Shia mosque during Friday prayer in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding 70, marking the deadliest attack in Kandahar, the birthplace and stronghold of the Taliban, since the fall of the US-backed Afghan government
Qatar said isolating the Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, would not be an option and advocated engagement with the hardline Sunni Islamist group for moderating their behavior
The Taliban appears to be non-committal on the issue of allowing girls to access higher secondary level education in Afghanistan as the group’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said they can't be expected to implement social reforms in such a short time
Asserting that the Afghan people should not “suffer collective punishment” for the actions of the Taliban, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Monday to the international community to come to the aid of the nation
The US has agreed to provide humanitarian aid and support non-governmental organizations to support the Afghan people, the Taliban said after the two days of talks with American officials concluded on Sunday
Senior Taliban leaders and US officials are in Doha holding direct face-to-face talks-- for the first time since the former seized power in Afghanistan--in the backdrop of the rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis and the threat posed by ISKP
A powerful explosion on Friday rocked a mosque belonging to the Shia minority community in northern Afghanistan, leaving at least 50 dead and several more injured
Russia will invite the Taliban to take part in international talks on Afghanistan that the former is scheduled to hold on 20 October, confirmed Russian Vladimir Putin's special representative on Afghanistan
The Taliban authority in Afghanistan is all set to approve a proposal by the country’s electricity regulator, allowing it to recover its dues from former government officials by selling their properties
Delegations of Iran and the United Kingdom met the Taliban leadership in Kabul--for the first time since the group seized power--as the humanitarian crisis worsened in Afghanistan with an acute shortage of food, medicine, and other essentials
Taliban fighters have executed at least 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them were former soldiers of the erstwhile Afghan government, Amnesty International said, adding the soldiers had already surrendered to the Taliban
Afghanistan is staring at a breakdown of its economic and social systems, European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said, warning the risk of the crisis turning into a "humanitarian catastrophe."
At least two people were killed and many others were wounded when an explosion happened outside Kabul’s Eid Gah Mosque, where a memorial prayer was happening for the mother of Taliban’s deputy cultural minister and spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid
The Taliban’s move of banning girls from secondary education is "a step backward", Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said, terming it “disappointing” and said that the group can learn from Qatar how to run an Islamic system
The Taliban has warned the United States against violating its air space and said if it did not stop flying drones over Afghan airspace there would be consequences
