{"id":72228,"date":"2021-01-10T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=72228"},"modified":"2021-01-14T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T14:38:18","slug":"over-40000-civilians-killed-in-afghanistan-in-5-years-ghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/72228-over-40000-civilians-killed-in-afghanistan-in-5-years-ghani\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 40,000 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan in 5 Years: Ghani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-10_21-10-55.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s President Ashraf Ghani said the war in his country has killed only 98 Americans since 2015, while over 40,000 Afghan civilians and troops have been killed in the same period.<br>\u201cSince I have been President \u2013 since 2015 \u2013 the number of Americans that have lost their lives is 98. While we, the Afghan people, have lost over 40,000 civilians and military. We are in the front line of your security,\u201d President Ghani told CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour.<br>\u201cThe key issue is not charity for us or responsibility,\u201d the Afghan president said.<br>\u201cWe are assuming responsibility for our future. So if the United States would like to withdraw, all we ask for is a process that is predictable that is mutually agreed,\u201d he noted.<br>Ghani urged US President-elect Joe Biden to make his decision and \u201cthen together we will forge a pathway to make sure our mutual interests are ensured.\u201d<br>The Biden administration must \u201cdefine what US security interests in Afghanistan and the region are. No one wants a return to a heavy footprint,\u201d Ghani said.<br>In a historic deal clinched between the US and the Afghan Taliban militant group in February, the United States promised to pull out all its troops by mid-2021 in return for the Taliban to stop their attacks on US-led occupation foreign forces in Afghanistan.<br>The Taliban agreed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire and a power-sharing formula with the Afghan government. However, the militant group has not yet fulfilled any of its commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s President Ashraf Ghani said the war in his country has killed only 98 Americans since 2015, while over 40,000 Afghan civilians and troops have been killed in the same period.\u201cSince I have been President \u2013 since 2015 \u2013 the number of Americans that have lost their lives is 98. While we, the Afghan people, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,31],"tags":[43,565,2140],"class_list":["post-72228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islam","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-civilians","tag-ghani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Over 40,000 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan in 5 Years: Ghani - Shia Waves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/72228-over-40000-civilians-killed-in-afghanistan-in-5-years-ghani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Over 40,000 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan in 5 Years: Ghani - Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Afghanistan\u2019s President Ashraf Ghani said the war in his country has killed only 98 Americans since 2015, while over 40,000 Afghan civilians and troops have been killed in the same period.\u201cSince I have been President \u2013 since 2015 \u2013 the number of Americans that have lost their lives is 98. 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