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 his meeting with the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, the head of the Taliban Qatar Based Political Office; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has warned that “any further” delay in the implementation of the US-Taliban peace deal would “harm” the fragile Afghan peace process
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing agreement on Sunday, nearly two months after both declared themselves the winner of last September’s presidential elections
The convoy of Chaparhar district governor Mohammad Seddiq Dawlatzai was targeted by a suicide bomber on Thursday afternoon, said local officials
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad reported he had a "constructive meeting" with senior Taliban leaders in Doha, including Mullah Baradar, and discussed with them issues related to the peace process including counter-terrorism, intra-Afghan talks and the withdrawal of US forces from the country under the peace agreement signed late February
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived back to Kabul following a short visit to Doha and has met with President Ghani, the Presidential Palace said
Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that it registered 492 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours --bringing the total positive cases to 8,145
At least 10 villagers were killed and 14 others wounded in two separate gun shootings in Afghanistan, authorities said on Wednesday
At least seven people were killed and 12 others were wounded in an attack by armed men on worshippers at a mosque in Parwan on Tuesday, the provincial police chief Haroon Mubariz said
Special envoys of Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan discussed Afghanistan’s situation and peace process, the envoys said in in a joint statement on Monday
Afghan political parties expect a “truly inclusive government,” capable of bringing all parties and movements together in order to move the peace process forward, a move that Dr. Abdullah Abdullah also called for after his signing of the agreement with President Ghani on Sunday
A group of Faryab residents in a public uprising against the Taliban cleared five villages under the control of the insurgent group in Shirin Tagab district
At least nine people were killed and around 40 injured on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack near a security base in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, officials said
After months of political deadlock, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his election rival Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday signed a power-sharing agreement in which Ghani remains in his post and Abdullah takes a leading role in the peace process
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah have inked a power-sharing agreement to end the political deadlock following last year's presidential election, a government officials have confirmed
At least seven people were killed and 25 others injured in a Taliban attack and an ensuing gunfight outside an intelligence agency camp in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Monday, a security source said
