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 Afghan insurgent group, has intensified attacks on the central city of Ghazni and Kandahar, the capitals of Ghazni and Kandahar provinces respectively, in the last week, raising fear about the fall of provinces among the security forces
General Scott Miller, the longest-serving four-star US general in Afghanistan, on Monday relinquished the post, handing over the charge to Marine Gen
India has evacuated all diplomatic staff and security personnel from its consulate in the southern city of Kandahar in Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in on the second biggest city of the country
Four civilians were killed in two separate explosions in Kabul and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan on Saturday morning, police and security sources confirmed.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday held the Taliban responsible for the ongoing violence in the country in which at least “200 to 600 people” are being killed every day
Afghan soil will not be used to attack neighbors, said a visiting Taliban delegation in Moscow on Friday, in what appears a reassuring message to Russia and the war-wracked country's other neighbors, who have grown increasingly concerned about the stability of the region amid the deteriorating security situation in northern Afghanistan
US President Joe Biden has said the Taliban military takeover is “not inevitable” in Afghanistan, adding the Afghan military is better equipped and trained
Afghan security forces have pushed off the Taliban offensive to capture Naw-e-Kala city, a key provincial center in northwestern Afghanistan, media reports say
Delegations of both the Taliban and the Afghan government have said in a joint declaration on Thursday in Tehran that war is not the solution to the Afghan problem and that “a peaceful solution should be sought.”
Tajikistan said it can’t manage the security situation along the border with Afghanistan without external assistance and has appealed to member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led military alliance
Customs revenues of the Afghan government slumped by almost 70 percent in the last two months as the Taliban, who are going all out militarily to wrest power and control the country, extended its control over strategic locations, port towns, and key trade routes
A senior Taliban delegation, headed by the group negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, has traveled to Tehran to discuss “bilateral issues” with Iran
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is over 90 percent complete, Pentagon’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Tuesday, indicating the country is just days away from ending its 20-year-long military presence in the war-torn country
Afghan security forces have launched large-scale operations against the Taliban to retake the districts that had earlier fallen to the Taliban, said the country’s National Security Advisor Hamidullah Mohib. The Taliban militia has taken control of over 100 districts in the past weeks
The Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group seeking to rule the country once again, has said capturing Kabul is “not Taliban policy” and any foreign troops left in Afghanistan after NATO’s September withdrawal deadline would be at risk as occupiers
