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.
In what could be an indication about its fresh entanglement with Afghanistan, the US on Saturday conducted an airstrike in the eastern part of the country, targeting an affiliate of terror outfit Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) and one of the masterminds of Thursday’s bombings at Hamid Karzai International Airport
Turkey has held the first round of talks with the Taliban for running the operation of the Kabul international airport, President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed, adding negotiations are going on and no final decision has been made yet
At least 105 Afghans and 13 US personnel were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday evening when two suicide bombers blew themselves up-- first, just outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport and second at the nearby Baron Hotel
The Taliban, the Afghan Islamist group that seized power in the country on 15 August, has now sought technical assistance from Turkey to help run the Kabul airport after the departure of foreign forces on 31 August
The situation in Afghanistan is “difficult and alarming,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said while ruling out the involvement of Russian f0rces in the conflict. Russia, he said, is keeping a “close eye” on the situation
US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed the August 31 deadline for ending the troop presence in Afghanistan despite immense pressure from his NATO allies who were seeking an extension to complete the evacuation of their nationals and thousands of Afghans at risk of facing retribution from the Taliban
At least one Afghan soldier died and three were injured when a firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen and Western security forces and Afghan soldiers at Kabul airport on Monday, Germany's armed forces confirmed in a tweet
The anti-Taliban resistance forces led by former Afghan first vice President Amrullah Saleh, who has recently declared himself as the acting president, launched counter attacks on the Taliban, capturing four districts in two provinces near Panjshir, the only province which is still not under the control of the Taliban
Days after the United States blocked the Taliban from accessing the country’s sovereign reserves maintained with the US Federal Reserve, the global lender International Monetary Fund (IMF), has followed suit
Protests erupted in at least two of eastern Afghan cities days after the Taliban seized power in the country as people gathered in thousands, waving the tricolor flag - which is different than the Taliban’s flag - demanding respect for the national flag from the insurgent group who are bidding to rule the country and rename it the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
The Taliban, the Sunni Islamist fundamentalist group that seized power militarily in Afghanistan last week, is struggling to access most of the Afghan central bank’s roughly $10 billion in assets, kept in US banks
The defining moment of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan will be the scenes of the hundreds of desperate Afghans, chasing American military planes on the airport’s runways in Kabul, with some people hanging on the planes’ wings desperately and dangerously
No flights can operate from Kabul airport now as the airspace has been closed, officials told NDTV
The Taliban, whose fighters encircled capital Kabul, has reportedly been seeking the unconditional surrender of the Afghan government even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and National Security Adviser Hamidullah Mohib left the country this evening, multiple reports said
The Taliban on Friday detained Ismail Khan, a veteran warlord who recently became the face of Herat resistance against the Taliban
