they were heavy.” He said he was disappointed as he liked Mr Ghani....

: Ghani pledged to fight till death but fled, says BlinkenBy then, three of the President’s Mi-17s were

call, Biden offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling

Ashraf Ghani tried to inhabit many roles during his years as Afghanistan’s president. But after

told Fox News, confirming Ghani’s departure. The embassy’s operations have been moved to the nearby

Mr Javid quit as Chancellor in the same reshuffle in which Ms Ghani was sacked.... He described

breached Kabul and approached the palace. Ghani made his decision to flee the country in a matter of

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, has been

rise to a humanitarian crisis.... Soon after the fall of the Ashraf Ghani government, the US froze

DOHA( BLOOMBERG)-The weeks leading up to Kabul's collapse saw a flurry of diplomatic activity by the United States and its allies in Qatar aimed at heading off exactly the chaotic scenes in the Afghan capital that have so horrified the world and put Mr Joe Biden's presidency on the defensive. Among those efforts was a tantalising agreement that could have guaranteed calm. Afghan and Taleban negotiators tentatively reached a deal in which all sides would declare a two-week ceasefire in exchange f