Tolo News: Abdul Nafi Takoor, a spokesman of the Interior Ministry, said that a rocket hit an empty residence in the Sherpor area of Kabul city, adding there were “no casualties.” But Rahmatullah Nabil, former head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said on his Twitter page a US drone attacked an ISIS shelter
8am: McCary, the former US Chargé d’Affaires for Afghanistan announced on Sunday in a series of tweets that Karen Decker is appointed as the new Chargé d’Affaires at the US Mission to Afghanistan. In a tweet, McCary said: “This week I am completing my assignment as the Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Mission to Afghanistan,
Michael Hughes: The U.S. and its allies are finding it difficult to effectively isolate the Taliban regime, especially in the face of pressure to help the people of Afghanistan amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Some factions from Washington to Brussels are doing their utmost to ensure the radical movement does not receive anywhere near the
Ariana: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report this week in which it stated the Pentagon made $232 million in questionable salary payments to the former government of Afghanistan’s defense ministry personnel for fiscal year 2019 to May 2020. SIGAR found that during this period, the US Defense Department (DoD) disbursed
Ariana: US and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) [Taliban] officials have exchanged proposals for the release of billions of dollars from Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund, three sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. Some $9 billion in reserves have been held outside Afghanistan, including $7 billion in the US.
Tolo News: The US State Department in its annual report which was published on Monday, included Afghanistan on the list of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers. According to the report, the current government of
CNN: There are tens of thousands of Afghans who have applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) whose applications are still being processed nearly a year after the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior administration official said Monday, adding that the process will now be entirely overseen by the State Department. Click here to read
Ariana: In a discussion released on Saturday by US-based investment bank and financial services company Goldman Sachs, Khalilzad said that parts of the US deal with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) have not been implemented. “Parts of it were implemented, parts are not,” Khalilzad said. “We need to go back and tell the Talibs
Ariana: US President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to rescind the designation of Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally, according to a statement published by the press service of the White House on Wednesday. The IEA [Taliban] spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote in a tweet that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is not
Ayaz Gul Navbahor Imamova VOA News July 6, 2022 ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON — The United States says no foreign government is contemplating legitimacy for Taliban rule in Afghanistan, even as the insurgent-turned-Islamist group next month will mark the first year of its return to power in Kabul. “I think there’s actually a global consensus to include Moscow and