After fleeing Afghanistan amid a Taliban takeover, the United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday that it is hosting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani “on humanitarian grounds.”
In a brief statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said, “The UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds.”
Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban drew closer to Kabul, before the insurgents marched unopposed into the Afghan capital.
Ghani claimed in a Facebook post that the “Taliban have won” and that he fled to avoid a “bloodbath.”
Until Wednesday, his whereabouts were unknown, with speculation that he had fled to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, or Oman.
