Statement on Eid by Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Ross Wilson

For Immediate Release MEDIA NOTE May 12, 2021 Statement on Eid by Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Ross Wilson Eid Mubarak to all our Afghan friends and partners!  I hope this holy month has been rewarding to you and your loved ones.  From our embassy community, we have shared messages of faith, charity, peace, and kindness throughout Ramadan.  I pray that …

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On the Anniversary of the April 6, 2013, Attack

Today, we honor the memory of six lives taken eight years ago in Qalat, Zabul province.  Foreign Service officer Anne Smedinghoff, 25; Staff Sgt Christopher Ward, 24; Specialist Wilbel Robles, 25; Specialist Delfin Santos, 24; an Afghan-American interpreter and an Afghan doctor whose respective families requested their names be kept private. The team was on …

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