(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The US special envoy to Afghanistan is stepping down, Secretary of State John Kerry announced yesterday in a move which comes at a key juncture in troubled US-Afghan ties
James Dobbins, a veteran diplomat with deep ties to Afghanistan, is retiring after just over a year in office and will be replaced by his deputy Dan Feldman, Kerry said in a statement
The shuffle comes as the two candidates to be Afghanistan's next president - succeeding Hamid Karzai who has held the reins for 13 years - wrangle over alleged fraud in the elections
The political crisis threatens the country's first democratic transfer of power, and tarnishes US hopes of a smooth handover as it prepares to withdraw all US forces by late 2016
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