Afghanistan’s President Ghani Arrives In U.S. Ahead Of Meeting With Biden

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in the United States ahead of a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House on June 25. A plane carrying the Afghan leader and his chief peacemaker, Abdullah Abdullah, landed early Thursday outside Washington. The first face-to-face interaction between Biden and Afghan officials comes ahead of the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by September 11 in line with Biden’s direction to close what he has described as the “forever war.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday Biden “looks forward to welcoming” the Afghan leaders and will reassure them of U.S. diplomatic,…