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.
Finally the warring Afghan leaders—President Ashraf Ghani and his estranged ally Abdullah Abdullah— have agreed to sign a political agreement that will set the motion for a power-sharing or coalition government after months of dispute and marathon mediation bids
The National Security Council accuses Taliban militants for killing civilians, saying the insurgents killed 79 innocent people only in the past one week
The diametrically opposite claims of the Afghan government and the US government about the deadly terror attack on the Kabul maternity hospital in which two dozen nurses, mothers and newly-born babies were killed early this week, indicate why the peace deal in Afghanistan is tenuous
Dozens of men and women on Friday flocked to Ataturk Hospital to adopt those Afghan babies who lost their parents in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a maternity ward on Tuesday
The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday briefed the US State Department on the situation in Afghanistan, particularly the situation which has emerged in the country following Tuesday’s deadly attacks on a maternity hospital in capital Kabu
The Pentagon has said that the US was committed to the troops' drawdown plan stipulated in the peace agreement that Washington inked with the Taliban in February
Defending his military strategy against insurgents, President Ashraf Ghani on Friday said his administration will never oppose efforts for peace and reconciliation, but warned that the Afghan armed forces deserve the right to defend the nation against threats and create conditions for a dignified peace
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged for an immediate stop of the current war and other acts that cause the deepening of differences among the people of the country
US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad said that the Islamic State (IS) terror group had conducted two deadly attacks in Afghanistan earlier this week, which killed more than 50 civilians
The recent wave of deadly attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan were on Thursday branded “war crimes” by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
At least five civilians were killed and 46, including military personnel, were injured after a massive truck bomb explosion rocked Gardez city, capital of Afghanistan's Paktia province on Thursday, authorities confirmed
US President Donald Trump, in answer to a question about the attacks in Afghanistan, told reporters: "At some point they’re going to have to be able to take care of their country.”
An Afghan mother, who volunteered to breastfeed 20 newborn babies who were left without their own mothers or families after a deadly terror attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, has been hailed by social media as a “symbol of national unity among Afghans.”
After a longtime defensive poster of the Afghan security forces, President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the military to turn into offensive and engage into aggressive operations against the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan
At least four deadly attacks were reported across Afghanistan, including the capital city Kabul on between Monday night and Tuesday, adding another layer of complexity to the government’s efforts for peace and the fight against COVID-19
