Ashraf Ghani

AFGHAN PEACE PROCESS / Taliban without Mullah Omar

Pakistan has to undertake some serious confidence building measures with Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani, who is keen to stop the bloodletting, is still not sure whether Pakistan really wants the insurgency to cease or if it has other motives.

US pledges to keep funding Afghan forces

The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country

Afghan president orders inquiry into woman's killing

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation after a mob beat a woman to death in the capital, Kabul, and then set her body on fire

Afghanistan hit by fresh avalanches

Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley killing at least 286 people so far

September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015

Taliban without Mullah Omar

Pakistan has to undertake some serious confidence building measures with Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani, who is keen to stop the bloodletting, is still not sure whether Pakistan really wants the insurgency to cease or if it has other motives.

March 24, 2015
March 24, 2015

US pledges to keep funding Afghan forces

The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country

March 20, 2015
March 20, 2015

Afghan president orders inquiry into woman's killing

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation after a mob beat a woman to death in the capital, Kabul, and then set her body on fire

March 2, 2015
March 2, 2015

Afghanistan hit by fresh avalanches

Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley killing at least 286 people so far

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