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Returned to the throne after the British and Shah Shuja were defeated in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Coined the term "Afghanistan" after an alliance with the British. Went on to defeat the remaining powers inside Afghanistan [note 1], reunifying the country after a brutal civil war lasting 70 years from 1793–1863 by the time of his death ...
This is a list of Presidents of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has only intermittently been a republic – between 1973–1992 and from 2001 onward – at other times being governed by a variety of kings , emirs , as well as mujahideen and Taliban leaders in the 1990s.
17 August - Incumbent Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh declares himself as caretaker president of Afghanistan and set up a resistance in Panjshir Province, the last government-controlled Afghan province. [35] 26 August 2021 Kabul airport attack – Explosion go off on gates outside Hamid Karzai International Airport. At least 182 are killed ...
Name Years Status President: Ashraf Ghani: 2014-2021 Chosen by electorate First Vice President: Abdul Rashid Dostum: 2014-2020 Chosen by electorate Second Vice President: Sarwar Danish: 2014-2021 Chosen by electorate Foreign Affairs Minister: Salahuddin Rabbani: 2015-2021 Acting (First Approved by the National Assembly, but later Rejected by them)
February 6 – Turkey withdraws its accreditation of Afghan diplomats representing the pre-2021 government. [6] February 11 – Five people are killed in a suicide bombing near a bank in Kunduz Province. [7] February 13 – One person is killed in a suicide bombing at the compound of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in Kabul. [8]
Several social media posts are promoting the claim that the current leader of Afghanistan was released from prison in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump. “Let this sink in,” the posts state.
Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during ...
The Taliban entered the capital on Aug. 15, 2021, as the Afghan security forces, set up with years of Western support, disintegrated and U.S.-backed President Ashraf Ghani fled.