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.
The Afghan government has not released any Taliban prisoners in the past two days, with the National Security Council saying they stopped the release process because Taliban did not free any government employees they have in custody
The Afghan government and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Tuesday raised serious concerns over what they described as a significant surge in the number of Taliban attacks in the country, even after the group signed a peace agreement with the United States on February 29 in Doha
The Taliban attacks are harmful, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said ahead of Defense Ministers meeting on Tuesday
Taliban say the prisoner release process of the Afghan government inmates from militants’ jails will continue in future as a gesture of goodwill although the process has not been coordinated as a prisoner swap with the Afghan government
At least 58 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally of the pandemic to 665 in Afghanistan with warning from health officials to take the virus seriously and observe the period of quarantine to help stop the wild spread of the epidemic
US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Gen. Austin S. Miller, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, on Monday met with a Taliban delegation led by the deputy leader of the group Mullah Baradar in Qatar and discussed the US and Taliban agreement
The international community assists with Afghanistan to fight the spread of coronavirus, a global threat, the ministry of finance said. Shamroz Khan Masjedi, spokesman for the ministry, said Sunday that the European Union and other countries would donate 220 million dollars to the government of Afghanistan for fighting the virus
A key member of the notorious Haqqani Network, who was released from Afghan government custody last year, has gone to Pakistan to resume terrorist activities, former intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil claims
The Taliban has released 20 Afghan security forces as part of a prisoner exchange process with the government in Kabul as per the agreement the militant group inked with the US to bring peace in the war-torn country
Afghan security forces have killed at least 27 Taliban militants in an operation conducted in northern Badakhshan province. Nine other Taliban insurgents were wounded, defense official said on Saturday
At least 20 employees of the Afghan Presidential Palace have tested positive for the novel coronavirus out of 517 samples examined
More than 20,000 stranded Afghans went back to their country via Pakistan's Torkham during the last four days of border reopening, it was reported
The Afghan government said a staggered prisoner release process would continue despite the Talibans withdrawal in protest against what it called an unacceptable initiative for peace
At least five rockets fired were fired at Bagram airbase in Parwan province early on Thursday morning, said Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior. A vehicle was destroyed but there were no casualties, said the ministry
The Afghanistan government has released a first batch of 100 Taliban prisoners as a part of a prisoner-swap process expected to pave way for the intra-Afghan talks, according to official sources
