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.
NATO's senior civilian representative to Afghanistan, Stefano Pontecorvo, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1325, said Afghan women’s rights are not negotiable and durable peace should protect these rights, Tolonews reported
The Taliban asked for the release of more Taliban prisoners as part of the US- Taliban deal in a meeting with US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday evening, the group’s Doha office spokesperson Dr. Muhammad Naeem said in a tweet
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani asked the Taliban to make the Holy Quran and Sharia as the basis for intra-Afghan talks in Doha, TOLOnews reported
In a stern message to Afghan warring parties, the European Union has called for “immediate, comprehensive, nationwide, and unconditional” ceasefire in Afghanistan
At least eight people died and another 12 injured in a riot that broke out Wednesday evening in the western city of Herat in Afghanistan, officials quoted by Tolonews said
US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has said he returned to Afghanistan 'disappointed' that despite commitments to lower violence, it has not happened, referring to a recent surge in Taliban attacks as well as civilian and Afghan forces casualties in the country
The Afghan Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday they have cleared some parts of Nara and Nad Ali districts in Helmand province and pushed the Taliban from the cities, as reported by Tolonews
US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Tuesday asked the warring Afghan sides to urgently agree on “reduction of violence” in the country
The Taliban was involved in various attacks and other violent activities around at least 22 provinces of Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the Afghan Ministry of Defense is quoted as saying by Tolonews on Tuesday
Four negotiators representing the Afghan government in the Doha peace talks with the Taliban have returned to Kabul amid a delay in direct discussions between the two sides, sources said
A magnetic IED bomb placed on a Toyota-Corolla model car exploded on Tuesday afternoon, killing three people in a downtown area of Police District 10 of Kabul in Afghanistan, as reported by Tolo news
Government officials from Khost province in Afghanistan confirmed on Tuesday morning that a car bomb targeted a compound of a special unit and some attackers tried to enter the building, Tolo News reported
Afghanistan’s second vice president, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, on Sunday blamed the Taliban for Saturday evening suicide attack on an educational centre in Kabul and called on the people to get ready for “tougher days” ahead
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Afghan warlord and leader of the Hizb-e-Islami party, demanded the formation of an interim government in Kabul, reported by Tolo news
President of Russia Federation, Vladimir Putin, said US withdrawal from Afghanistan may spark instability in the country. Putin said we backed the “presence of US troops in Afghanistan” after the attack of 9/11
