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Colorado National Guard Troops Deploy To Afghanistan Military families gathered at Wings Over the Rockies & Space Museum on Saturday to say "see you later" to their loved ones. About 30 members of the Colorado National Guard are deploying to Afghanistan.
The 220th Military Police Company will support the U.S. Central Command Opeartions. Some of... |
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Abdullahs Campaign Head: I Was Barred From Flight Osmani said that after many phone calls from the Chief Executives office he was allowed to fly to Herat.
Ali Ahmad Osmani, head of Abdullah Abdullahs electoral campaign team, said that Kabul airport officials were not allowing him to fly to Herat province on Sunday morning.
Osmani said that he... |
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Defiant Abdullah Meets Politicians in Midst of Election Dispute Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in a statement on Saturday once again rejected the presidential election results, saying the announcement is not credible and is based on "fraud."
The statement followed two days of meetings between Abdullah and other prominent politicians including: former Afghan... |
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Abdullah to launch widespread program from the North after rejecting controversial election results Abdullah Abdullah, the frontrunner of 2019 presidential elections, is set to kick-start the implementation of his widespread plan from the North after rejecting the announcement of final presidential election results.
A source within the Stability and Convergence Team led by Abdullah said they have... |
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Afghanistan; 10,000 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES in 2019 UNAMA Parties to the conflict in Afghanistan killed and injured more than 10,000 civilians in 2019, according to a new United Nations report that describes continuing record-high levels of civilian harm in the ongoing conflict, said UNAMA in a statement on February 22.
Based on the report, in 2019, 3,403... |
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Khalili Criticizes Intl. Silence on Election Results In the midst of the electoral dispute, Mohammad Karim Khalili, a top member of Abdullah Abdullahs Stability and Convergence campaign team, on Friday said that Abdullahs campaign was holding discussions about the formation of a new cabinet under Abdullahs leadership.
"We will form a new cabinet,"... |
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NATO Welcomes US-Taliban Plan to Sign Deal Amid renewed hopes on the Afghan peace process, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday welcomed the announcement by the United States and the Taliban that the two sides will sign an agreement on February 29.
"I welcome todays announcement that an understanding has been reached on a... |
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US-Taliban Deal to be Signed on Feb. 29: Pompeo The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement on Friday said the deal between the United States and the Taliban - about which the two sides have agreed after more than 10 rounds of talks led by chief negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad - will be signed on February 29.
"The United States and the Taliban... |
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NSC Confirms Reduction in Violence Begins Tonight The National Security Council (NSC) on Friday confirmed that the seven-day period of the reduction in violence - which the US and the Taliban have agreed as a pre-condition to signing a peace deal - will begin sharply at 12am-midnight, the morning of Saturday, February 22.
The NSC spokesman Jawed... |
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Council of Presidential Candidates Calls to Annul Election Result The Council of Presidential Candidates during a press conference on Thursday called for the final results of the presidential election to be disregarded.
A number of presidential candidates who are members of the council blame the electoral commission for neglecting its duties, which, according to them,... |
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Violence Reduction Details In accordance with the plan of ‘violence reduction, the Talibans daily attacks will decrease from 75 to 15. They will not attack highways, cities, US bases and key Afghan military spots.
Sources have shared parts of the ‘violence reduction plan with Ariana News. Based on the plan, Afghan... |
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Khalilzad Meets Karzai, Discusses Current Situation The US peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday night and discussed the "current situation and relations between the countries," Karzais office said.
"The chaos of the election and the contradictory statements of the international organizations... |
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Abdullah Asks EUs Clarification on Election Stance Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in a letter on Thursday asked the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, for clarification about the EU’s "congratulation of President Ghani."
Abdullah, tweeting about... |
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Afghan election results fuel tensions in the country Afghanistan has entered a fragile phase due to the controversial release of the results of the countrys September presidential election.
Afghanistans Independent Election Commission declared the final results of the disputed election and named incumbent president Ashraf Ghani as the winner. Soon... |
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Hekmatyar Rejects Results: Ghani Chose Path of Crisis Presidential candidate and leader of Hizb-e-Islami party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, at a press conference in Kabul on Wednesday rejected Tuesdays announcement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) declaring incumbent Ashraf Ghani the countrys next president, saying Ghani "chose the path of crisis... |
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Election Imposed on Afghans Serves Foreigners: Karzai Afghanistans former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said that he had already informed the Afghan people that the current circumstances in the country werent suitable to ensure credibility and transparency of the elections and that the election process was "imposed" on the Afghan people.
"The... |
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Dostum endorses Abdullahs stance regarding elections, urges supporters not remain silent General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the leader of Junbish-e Millie Party and First Vice President of the Government of National Unity endorsed Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullahs stance after the announcement of final election results.
Speaking among his supporters in Jawzjan earlier today, Dostum said the... |
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There is Chance of Taliban Deal: Trump US President Donald Trump has told reporters on Tuesday that there is a chance of making a deal with the Taliban, AP reported.
"So, we are negotiating with the Taliban. Weve been negotiating with them for a while. We will see what happens. Its a chance of making a deal. It is a chance," Trump said.
This... |
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Abdullah Rejects Results, Announces Formation of Inclusive Govt Hours after the announcement of the final results of the presidential election by the Independent Election Commission, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of Afghanistan, announced the formation of an "inclusive government" by his Stability and Convergence campaign team, declaring his "victory" in... |
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Ghani Elected President of Afghanistan The Independent Election Commission announced President Ashraf Ghani as winner of Afghanistan’s presidential election during a press conference on Tuesday.
The final results of the election, according to the IEC, show that President Ashraf Ghani has the highest count with 50.6% of total, at... |
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Khalilzad Meets Pakistan Prime Minister, Briefs on Peace Talks US peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan and briefed about the latest developments in the Afghan peace and reconciliation process, Pakistans Dawn news reported.
Reiterating Pakistans commitment to a peaceful, stable and democratic Afghanistan,... |
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US-Taliban Peace Agreement is Entirely Conditional: Sediqqi Sediq Sediqqi, Palace spokesman, at a press conference on President Ghanis recent trip to the Munich Security Conference on Tuesday, said that the US-Taliban peace deal is conditional and will be "finalized next week."
"Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, and Mark Esper, US Secretary of Defense,... |
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IEC to reveal election results According to a member of the Independent Election Commission, political issues will not affect the technical and legal aspects of the election to pronounce the final results.
The special audit of the 300 conflicted votes in the central office of the IEC has come to an end. After the recounting of... |
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Five Afghan Forces Killed in Kunduz Attack: MoD At least five soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a security checkpoint in northern Kunduz province on Sunday night, the Ministry of Defense said on Monday.
The Taliban attacked a security checkpoint outside of Kunduz city and the clashes continued until 4:30 am Monday morning, local officials... |
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US-Taliban peace deal to be signed by the end of February Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, the deputy of the Talibans political office in Qatar said that the peace agreement between the Taliban and the US will be signed by the end of February.
Hanafi said that all the options in the Peace Talks are completed, and the talks are finished now.
Abdul Salam Hanafi... |
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Peace Agreement Between US and Taliban Finalized: Abdullah Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah at the Council of Ministers on Monday said that the peace agreement between the Taliban and US has been "finalized."
"The agreement between the Taliban and US has been finalized and the signing of the agreement is based on the reduction in violence over seven-days... |
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Ghani, US Senators Discuss Peace Process President Ashraf Ghani met with a group of US senators on the sidelines of the 56th Munich Security Conference on Saturday afternoon and discussed the Afghan peace process, the Presidential Palace said in a statement.
"Chairs of the armed service, environment and public works, banking and urban affairs,... |
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President Jeenbekov sends message over Day of withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov today wrote a message on occasion of the Day of the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Afghanistan.
In his letter, he reminded that more than 7,000 soldiers of Kyrgyzstan, including 233 dead and 1,500 injured, participated in the Afghanistan war 31 years... |
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Dostum Threatens Parallel Govt if Election Results are Rigged First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum has threatened to form a "parallel government" under the leadership of Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of the National Unity Government, if the election commission "announces fraudulent results of the presidential elections," which were held on September... |
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Afghan President Meets Key US, NATO Officials in Munich Afghanistans President Ashraf Ghani is meeting with top US and NATO officials on Friday in Germany at the Munich Security Conference, according to tweets from the Presidential Palace.
This comes as events in the US-Taliban peace negotiation talks in Doha appear to accelerate, following an announcement... |
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