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 came as a clear and stern message to the Afghan insurgent group, the Taliban, a joint statement issued by America, Russia, Pakistan, and China made it clear that the return of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan is “unacceptable” to the international community
US President Joe Biden said it is “tough’ to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by 1 May, the deadline agreed upon by the US under the 2020 Doha deal
Three members of Afghan security forces guarding a dam in western Herat province have been killed on Tuesday morning in an attack by unknown gunmen, reported TOLOnews
Both American threats and the involvement of more countries have had a salutary effect on the Afghan government
A secretary-level Iranian officer posted at the Iranian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was injured in what seems like a robbery attempt by armed gunmen in the western part of the capital, reported TOLOnews
A letter, written by the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last week, was leaked to media showing the US is pushing the Afghan government for a participatory government in the war-torn country
The targeted assassinations against journalists and human rights activists in Afghanistan continue unabated with three more women media workers of a local news channel were shot dead by unknown gunmen on Tuesday in two separate attacks, reported TOLOnews
In what is his first engagement to the region under the new Biden administration, US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Zalmay Khalilzad reached the Afghan capital Kabul, on Monday to discuss the Afghan peace process, and the review of the 2020 Doha deal with Afghan leaders
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asked the Afghan insurgent group Taliban to reduce violence in Afghanistan and engage in meaningful talks with the Afghan government to find a political solution to end the conflict in the country
Amid ongoing review of the US-Taliban deal by the new Biden administration in the United States, the Taliban has ordered its military commanders all across Afghanistan not toinclude any foreign fighters in its ranks
Almost after a gap of one month, the Taliban and the Afghan resumed their talks in Doha, Qatar
Afghan parliament on Monday passed the country’s budget for the current fiscal year, thus ending an almost two-month-long tussle between the country’s lawmakers and the government, reported TOLOnews
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that their troops would not leave Afghanistan before “the time is right”, adding the troops’ presence in the country is “condition-based”
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, on Thursday said that the Taliban’s hard stance on talks was not helping the situation
The convoy of the UN Afghan envoy came under attack by unknown gunmen in Kabul province, leaving five personnel of the Afghan Directorate of Protection Service, guarding the envoy, dead, TOLOnews reported
