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 …

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 …