A bombshell report citing customs reports and other documents published by Business Insider on Tuesday accused the collapsed government of Afghanistan of allowing nearly $1 billion in cash, gold, jewelry, and other valuables to be smuggled out of the country shortly before the Taliban takeover.
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published its final report on the “theft of funds from Afghanistan,” with particular attention to “allegations concerning President Ghani and former senior Afghan officials.”
Deposed Afghan President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani insisted in his first television interview since fleeing the country that he remains its legitimate head of state.
The latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the federal government’s designated watchdog on America’s role in the country, blamed President Joe Biden’s extension of the Afghan war — then abrupt withdrawal from the country — for crushing the morale of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), paving the way for the Taliban’s swift takeover.
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke in a BBC radio interview on Thursday for the first time since he mysteriously disappeared during the fall of Kabul in August.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he invited the Taliban to invade and capture Kabul after the sitting president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country. Karzai said he held the door for the Taliban so they could “protect the population” and ensure Kabul did not “fall into chaos.”
The former finance minister of Afghanistan, Khalid Payenda, accused officials in the now-defunct government he served on Wednesday of failing to report soldier deaths to continue cashing those troops’ salaries for themselves.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to deny Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden pressured his then-Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani, during a phone call in July to mislead the public and say Kabul was winning its war against the Taliban.
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) said that the July call between President Joe Biden and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani shows that the Biden administration “knew they had problems, they had issues.”
Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively he thinks “there’s something wrong” with his successor, President Joe Biden, as evidenced by Biden’s cognitive impairment on public display.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki demanded details from former President Trump’s leaked phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, but on Wednesday denied to speak about the specifics of President Biden’s leaked phone call with the Afghan president.
The Reuters report revealed details of the transcript of the July 23 conversation, where Biden urged Ghani to show the world they were competing militarily with the Taliban.
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, also known as the “Butcher of Kabul,” on Tuesday promised unconditional support for the Taliban regime from his Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) party.
A leaked transcript and audio recording of a call between President Joe Biden and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani two weeks before Kabul fell showed that as the Afghan president warned of a Taliban “invasion,” Biden pressed him to change the “perception.”
President Ashraf Ghani’s former Minister for Communications is now making an honest living as a food delivery driver in Germany.
While justifying the U.S. incursion into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, Egyptian-American political analyst Magdi Khalil criticized the “naive” and “unrealistic” American attempt at “nation-building” and bringing democracy and human rights to the “extremist Islamic wasteland” of Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation” that he was discussing the current Taliban takeover of Afghanistan a week ago with the president who he identified as “Karzai.”
Former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani resurfaced in a video posted to his Facebook profile late Wednesday confirming he is currently in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after fleeing the Taliban and claiming reports he stole $169 million on the way out were “completely baseless.”
The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan for the former government of President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday that he is seeking help from Interpol to arrest the ex-head of state over the embezzlement of tens of millions of dollars.
Afghanistan’s first Vice President Amrullah Saleh claimed Tuesday to be the de facto “President” of the collapsed country while the Taliban terrorists held their first press conference.
The Taliban seized a staggering quantity of American military vehicles, equipment, and weapons when it overran Afghanistan in a week. President Joe Biden, a Democrat obsessed with gun control, ended up giving billions of dollars of American weapons to the Islamist fanatics that helped perpetrate 9/11.
Russia said on Monday that it would cultivate friendly relations with the Taliban, which Russian officials insisted was not a security threat to Central Asia.
The Russian embassy in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, claimed on Monday that former President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter stuffed with cash.
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a CNN interview on Sunday that the administration of President Joe Biden “can work with and recognize” a Taliban government in Afghanistan that respects women and “doesn’t harbor terrorists.”
President Joe Biden on Sunday afternoon authorized another 1,000 American forces to deploy to Kabul to help with a massive evacuation effort of American civilians and employees, as well as Afghan allies, as the Taliban declared victory.
Taliban officials declared victory and the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after occupying the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday.
The leadership of the Taliban ordered its fighters to enter Kabul on Sunday after initially ordering them not to, citing the threat of “thieves and robbers” taking advantage of the flight of the legitimate Afghan government from the capital.
President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday following the arrival of Taliban forces to the nation’s capital, Kabul, Afghan outlet Tolo News reported.
President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan resurfaced publicly on Saturday in a pre-recorded television address to the nation, claiming to be “remobilizing” the barely functional Afghan military forces and vowing to “prevent further instability, violence and displacement of my people.”
Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported on Sunday that Taliban leaders are in Kabul negotiating the end of the legitimate government of the country and its handover to the Taliban.
A senior aide to President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan complained Thursday that former President Donald Trump’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban was responsible for Kabul’s prodigious losses in the past several months because they offered the terrorist group undue “legitimacy.”
Acting Finance Minister Khalid Payenda on Wednesday resigned his position with the government of Afghanistan and fled the country after the brutal Taliban insurgency gained control of vital border crossings and captured three more provincial capitals, bringing its total to nine.
A former Afghan ambassador told the Wall Street Journal this week that Afghan troops are quitting in droves in the face of mounting Taliban attacks because “they haven’t even been fed properly” by their “corrupt” government.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Monday blamed the “sudden” withdrawal of U.S. troops for his country’s deteriorating security situation, as Taliban insurgents closed in on three provincial capitals and hit the Kandahar airport with rocket artillery.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on Friday there will be no peace in Afghanistan until President Ashraf Ghani leaves power and a new national government acceptable to the Taliban is installed in Kabul.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday demanded funding from the United States for a force of Turkish troops that could prospectively guard the airport in Kabul after U.S. forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Dozens of women in Feroz Koh, capital city of Afghanistan’s central Ghor province, took up arms and marched on Sunday to show their defiance against the advancing Taliban.
Officials in Baghlan, Afghanistan, told the national outlet Tolo News on Tuesday that incessant fighting between government forces and the Taliban jihadist group left over 100 civilian casualties in that district in the past month, most of them deaths and many of them children.
Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported on Monday that an Afghan delegation to Washington has been told the United States will provide 37 Black Hawk helicopters and two A-29 Super Tucano fixed-wing attack planes to Kabul for deployment against advancing Taliban forces.
The Biden administration revealed Thursday it will evacuate thousands of Afghans who helped the departing U.S. military during the war to other countries until American entry visas for them and their families are processed.
