By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 12, 2019 KABUL — The Afghan government has released three key Taliban prisoners, including Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajjuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, in exchange for two professors of the American University of Afgahnistan in Kabul, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced. The prisoners
Ariana: Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Idrees Zaman [is] accused of ethnic cleansing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after he dismissed several directors from their positions in a short period of time. A number of lawmakers on Monday called on the Afghan parliament to prevent “such illegal dismissals”. Click here to read more
Ariana: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has formally complained to the leadership of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) over Commissioner Maulana Abdullah’s threatening behavior towards the Data Manager of the IEC National Tally Center. “During the meeting, UNESP technical advisers and the International Commissioners witnessed direct life-threatening statements being made against Mr. Bashir
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 10, 2019 U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years.” In an ABC interview broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September 11 attacks
Press TV November 10, 2019 A top security official in Afghanistan says the Daesh terrorist group has been “defeated” in one of the key eastern provinces of the country, amid an ongoing offensive by the Kabul government against the terrorists operating across the troubled region. Acting Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi told reporters during a press
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 10, 2019 The leading challenger to incumbent Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan’s presidential election more than a month ago has withdrawn his team of observers from the ongoing and acrimonious official recount. Candidate and longtime Ghani rival Abdullah Abdullah, the current chief executive in a power-sharing deal that cleared the path
Ariana: Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday officially launched the recounting process of suspicious votes. However, electoral campaigns of Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Rahmatullah Nabil boycotted the process. Ghani’s State-Builder team says it support the recount process. Click here to read more (external link).