by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 6, 2017 | World
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani announced on Tuesday that the death toll from last week’s truck bombing in the capital Kabul has reached to over 150. He said during a peace conference in the city that more than 300 people were wounded in the attack. The blast...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 23, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received in Riyadh on Monday Afghani President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani. The monarch welcomed the president in the Kingdom, while Ghani expressed happiness to meet with the Custodian of the Two Holy...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 5, 2017 | World
Kabul- Hezb-e Islami (Islamic political party) leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar entered the Afghan presidential palace for the first time after 20 years of hiding when backing extremist groups fighting the Western-backed Afghan government. Prominent Afghan figures, such as...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 30, 2017 | World
Kabul — In his first speech after his first public appearance in Afghanistan after nearly two decades underground, warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called on Taliban insurgents to “join the peace caravan and stop this pointless unholy war.” He also urged all political...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 18, 2017 | World
Kabul- US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing diplomatic, military and economic responses to its Taliban and ISIS enemies in Afghanistan. On...
