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Transitional President; Appointed by the 2002 loya jirga. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004–2021) Hamid Karzai: born 1957 7 December 2004: 29 September 2014 9 years, 296 days Independent: President; First democratically elected head of state; Elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009. Ashraf Ghani: born 1949 29 September 2014 15 August 2021
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 ...
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.
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)
“By January 2021, the Taliban was in the strongest military position it had been since 9/11 [and] we had the smallest number of US forces in Afghanistan since 2001,” he said, arguing that the ...
Hamid Karzai (/ ˈ h æ m ɪ d ˈ k ɑːr z aɪ /; Pashto/Persian: حامد کرزی, Pashto pronunciation: [ˈhɑmɪd karˈzai], Dari pronunciation: [ˈhɒːmɪd kaɾzeˈiː]; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from June 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from ...
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
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.