KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner can ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was inaugurated as president of Afghanistan on Monday, punctuating a season of grave political crisis with a peaceful transition of power that stood as a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before becoming president-elect of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai began spending tens of thousands of dollars on lobbyists in the United States, using his ties to the West ...

Ashraf Ghani is an intellectual high-achiever with a famous temper who proudly describes himself as a "free spirit". Now he must prove himself to be a unifying leader who can tackle Afghanistan's vast ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Monday became Afghanistan’s second president since the 2001 U.S. invasion. His ascension to the presidency is the country’s first peaceful transfer ...

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan swore in Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as its second elected president on Monday, embarking on a new era with a national unity government poised to confront a resilient ...

ABU DHABI, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Afghanistan’s presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai urged on Friday “an extensive audit” of the mid-June presidential runoff to deter possible domestic tensions ...

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission declared Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the future Afghan President and his rival Abdullah Abdullah as the Chief Executive on Sunday. Ahmad Yousaf Nooristan, ...