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.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s rival in last two rounds of election Abdullah Abdullah. the former chief executive, would soon become chairman of the new reconciliation council, according to Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh, who said that political tensions would be soon over
Afghan health officials announced 164 new cases of coronavirus registered in the past 24 hours, pushing the tally to 2,235 across Afghanistan
At least five members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and 5 others were wounded in fighting in Zare district of northern Balkh province, said Mohammad Hanif Rezayee, a spokesman for the 209 Shaheen Army Corps
US envoy for Afghanistan’s peace, Zalmay Khalilzad, in tweets in the early hours of Saturday morning, said that civilians still suffer from the ongoing war in Afghanistan despite the fall in casualties
Former Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has reported progress in the political negotiations with President Ashraf Ghani and said there have been agreements in principle and that work is underway to finalize the details of the agreement between the two sides
More than seven million children in Afghanistan were at risk of hunger as food prices have soared in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report warned on Friday
The Taliban has released another 52 government prisoners and announced they had sped up the process as part of efforts to "save their lives" from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
The European Union (EU) reiterated its appeal to Afghan political leaders, referring to President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah, to settle their political differences as soon as possible and focus their efforts on Afghanistan's national interests; otherwise, future aid funding might be affected
The two houses of the Afghan Parliament -- the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) and the Meshrano Jirga (upper house) -- have been put under lockdown until the end of the nationwide restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a “terrorist attack” in Kabul that killed and wounded a number of people on Wednesday
The parliament’s two houses say they had stopped mediating efforts to solve political problems between President Ashraf Ghani and his rival in last year’s election Abdullah Abdullah over the results of polls that announced Abdullah the loser
A suicide attack here left at least three people dead and 15 wounded on Wednesday, the interior ministry reported
The government’s chief negotiator says that they were working on a plan that could ensure ceasefire
While the Afghan government insists on spending foreign funds it receives from the international donors through the government’s budget, there are serious concerns among experts about the government’s capacity to invest the funds effectively and transparently in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
The United States has given the role of Blackwater, the giant private security company to Taliban, Russian media report
