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.
Days after the Taliban captured several key districts in northern Afghanistan in a lightning offensive, locals and former mujahideen commanders, in a seemingly new development in a socially volatile nation, are taking up arms against the Taliban in several provinces
US and NATO forces came to Afghanistan to fight extremism and bring stability and they are leaving almost two decades after having failed at both, said former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, calling the legacy of foreign forces a "total disgrace and disaster" for the war-ravaged country
Amidst the intensified fighting in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani and chief peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah will visit the United States this week and meet US President Joe Biden, the White House said in a statement
Amidst the intensified fighting across Afghanistan and steady march of the Taliban, President Ashraf Ghani unveiled major shake-ups-- the second time in two months -- in the top echelon of the country’s security establishment, replacing defense and interior ministers as well as army chief
Amidst the intensified fighting across Afghanistan, the country’s President Ashraf Ghani unveiled major shake-ups-- the second time in two months period-- in the top echelon of the country’s security establishment, replacing defense and interior ministers as well as army chief
A delegation of senior Afghan leaders, including former Afghan president Hamid Karzai and chief peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah, is likely to make a visit to Doha, Qatar, within the next few days to meet Taliban leaders, media reports say, amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan
The Afghanistan government seems to be thinking hard whether to hand over the responsibility of running the Kabul airport to Turkish forces, media reports said
Amid a rising Covid-19 surge in Afghanistan, especially in capital Kabul, the US embassy has ordered a near-complete lockdown
Transnational terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and ISIS might be able to regroup in Afghanistan in two years, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned, adding the groups could pose a medium-level threat to the US
At least four people, including three civilians and a law enforcement member, died in a car bomb blast in the Afghan province of Balkh, TOLO news outlet
At least 21 personnel of Afghan special forces were killed in northern Afghanistan’s Faryab province by the Taliban, officials of the Afghan defense ministry confirmed
Time is running out for Afghan peace negotiations and more needs to be done to boost the negotiations, Tomas Niklasson, the European Union special envoy for Afghanistan, said as international forces withdraw from the war-torn country
Five health workers carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province were killed on Tuesday, and four injured, during a series of attacks condemned by a senior UN official on the ground as brutal and “senseless”
The Taliban, the main Afghan insurgent group, has taken control of four districts in four different provinces on Tuesday
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed a new joint mission involving Pakistan and Hungary to protect and run Afghanistan capital Kabul's international airport following the withdrawal of other NATO troops
