KABUL (SW) – Shah Mohammad Mehrabi, a member of the High Council of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, said that Afghanistan’s economy was collapsing and that the United States could prevent it from collapsing.
MONITORING (SW) – A flight chartered by the US government left Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, marking the first evacuation departure since November, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has rejected the recent remarks by the US President Joe Biden about Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – There are currently about 80 Americans in Afghanistan who want to leave the country, but evacuation flights have been grounded by the Taliban for about a month, according to a State Department official and two congressional sources familiar with the matter.
It is unclear when the flights will resume, the sources said.
MONITORING (SW) – Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has said his trust in the international community, especially the United States and its allies, has been the biggest mistake of his presidency.
MONITORING (SW) – More than 40 House Democrats on Monday called on President Biden to open up access to economic reserves for Afghanistan in order to prevent “imminent mass starvation.”
MONITORING (SW) – Taking note of the Taliban’s victory over the US military in Afghanistan, the US Congress voted on Wednesday to create a commission to assess the 20-year war’s failures.
MONITORING (SW) – The US has pledged to provide $ 474 million in humanitarian aid and a million more does of the Covid-19 vaccines to Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview.
MONITORING (SW) – Analysts believe terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda pose serious threats to stability and peace in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – A top US diplomat has stressed that the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate needs to meet conditions for international recognition.
MONITORING (SW) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said what has happened in Afghanistan is a tragedy for Afghan people.
