News about Ashraf Ghani

As Lieutenant General Sami Sadat stepped onto a C-17 military plane at Kabul International Airport on August 19, 2021, bloodshed engulfed the country he loved and had spent his life fighting for. Desperate Afghans surrounded the runway, trying to escape the Taliban and the inhumanity that would soon take over as Western forces left. The three-star general in the Afghanistan Army was exhausted, humiliated, quietly nursing a shrapnel wound to his neck and about to make the hardest decision of his life: To leave his homeland behind. Staying would have likely meant death for him and his troops. Sadat lays out his vision for his beloved country and gives a damning assessment of who is to blame for his its collapse in his book The Last Commander . His story is the inside account of how Afghanistan was cast aside, and the pivotal role the U.S. and the West played in its abandonment.

According to a recent book, Joe Biden was on vacation at Camp David when Afghanistan's president, Ashraf Ghani (inset), fled Kabul. Biden erupted in rage. In a new account of the first two years of the Biden presidency, journalist Frankin Foer writes, "Biden exploded in indignation." Foer writes that Biden exclaimed: 'Give me a break!' The planned orderly departure of US troops into chaos, and Biden was confronted with the rapidly deteriorating situation and American criticism of his handling of the crisis on August 22, and laughed (left).

Since the Biden administration's chaotic removal, almost 78,000 refugees who served alongside the US military in Afghanistan have arrived in America. Most people are still in limbo two years after escaping the violent Taliban leadership to start new lives. Congress has yet to devise a long-term strategy for their stay, and advocates are getting frustrated. Their flight contributes to a long line of blunders during the evacuation, including a vetting process that enabled 65 suspected terrorists to reach the United States. Farzana Jamalzada has deep links to the United States' presence in Afghanistan, having served with USAID and former President Ashraf Ghani by the time she was 25. When news broke that Ghani had left in 2021, she was at the presidential palace. Both her husband and her husband were employed in the Interior Ministry, and under the Taliban regime, they knew they would have targets on their back.

In 2021, the United Kingdom and the United States ended a bloody 20-year war in the world, which almost immediately allowed the fundamentalist group to arrive unopposed in Kabul. Many have since expressed concern that the tumultuous departure would make Afghanistan again a "breeding ground" for terror. In a damning 30-page study, Tobias Ellwood, chair of the cross-party Commons Defence Committee, described the withdrawal as "a dark chapter in UK military history." The commission also asked that the government clarify what steps it is taking to ensure safe passage to the UK for many thousand Afghans who are still eligible for evacuation.

The baby had been recovered from the wreckage two years earlier after her parents and five siblings were killed during a joint US Special Forces raid. She had come to live with a newlywed Afghan couple named as her relatives after months of intensive care in a US military hospital in Afghanistan. However, court documents show that Joshua Mast, a US Marine Corps prosecutor on a temporary assignment in Afghanistan, discovered the baby while she was still in the hospital. He was compelled to adopt the Afghan baby with his wife Stephanie back home in Virginia and praised it as a sign of Christian faith.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden defended the tumultuous evacuation from Afghanistan, saying that 2022 would be the first year in this century that no Americans had died in the country. This week, the Taliban have been commemorating their takeover of Afghanistan, while diplomats and military leaders have reflect on 20 years of war, with thousands of American lives and trillions of American dollars — which has ultimately handed the country back to Islamist hardliners. Last year, Biden's own military advisors tried to convince him to remove many thousand troops in the country to prevent it from falling to the Taliban.

It's been a year since Afghanistan's government fell and Republicans have promised to keep President Joe Biden accountable for the devastating troop withdrawal that paved the way for the Taliban's ascension to power. The White House, on the other hand, is still on clean-up duty defending the change, and a memo circulated on Capitol Hill arguing that the removal served the US national security interest by freeing up military and intelligence agents who had been stationed in Afghanistan for more than 20 years. Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's interim report on Sunday put the blame on President Joe Biden and highlighted the administration's evacuation plans.

In captured American humvees, the Taliban rode screamed through Kabul's shuttered gates, prompting President Ashraf Ghani to flee and completing a lightning-fast conquest of the country. As their leaders declared a national holiday to mark the occasion, jubilant militants chanted victory slogans, danced, and fired shots into the air. However, the country's re-conquest has come at a price, with millions of people facing destitution and starvation as foreign currency has drained, but the rights of citizens, particularly women, have been eroded.

On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill rode on a bicycle on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Taliban tookover of Afghanistan was one-year anniversary. When reporters asked if Biden would speak to the media, he said, 'no,' but insisted he had been "been on the phone a lot" during his family vacation. The president wore a blue shirt and khaki shorts, as well as a Beau Biden foundation hat for the outing on Sunday morning, while Jill wore a white tank top, black athletic skirt, and purple tennis shoes. Both wore aviators.

The United Kingdom and the United States' pulling out of the country (right), allowing the Taliban to march into Kabul and sweep back into power. The Defence Secretary (left) told Mail+ Defence and Diplomacy Editor Mark Nicol of a trip to a war memorial dedicated to the hundreds of British troops killed during the 20-year war, and expressed concern that their bereaved parents would feel they had given their lives for nothing.

It has been announced that the government is houseing refugees from Afghanistan in hotels for a day in the run-up to the Taliban's takeover of Egypt. Left: Left: The Taliban fighters are celebrating after the withdrawal of US troops last year, and right: Afghan civilians are fleeing the country in a US military aircraft. Around 9,500 refugees are reported to be staying in the 70 hotels as they seek more stable accommodation. Officials are aware that living in hotels is not the right situation for families, and they are trying to move them to permanent homes as soon as possible. According to reports, the delays are due to the fact that matching families with appropriate homes is causing such apprehension, as well as pre-existing pressures on the housing market. Since arriving in Afghanistan, around 7,000 refugees are said to have been moved to settled housing.