State Department declines to say if Ghani still Afghan president

FILE PHOTO: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan December 7, 2015. Ghani confirmed on Monday that he would travel to Pakistan for a regional conference on Afghanistan, in a sign of fresh efforts to reduce tension between the two neighbouring countries. REUTERS/Stringer

The U.S. State Department on Monday declined to say if the United States still recognized Ashraf Ghani as the president of Afghanistan.

"So this is something that we are working on with the international community," State Department spokesman Ned Price responded when asked who Washington recognized as the leader of Afghanistan.

(Reporting by Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)