The U.S. and its allies are denying the Taliban billions of dollars in financial assistance tagged for Afghanistan—but the group has drug earnings to sustain it
The Biden administration is set to cut off the Taliban’s access to billions of dollars in critical overseas finance, but some officials warn that the terror-group’s income from drug sales and other illicit activities threatens to undermine Washington’s last-resort pressure campaign.
Officials from European Union member states participated in a meeting Tuesday to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.U.S. officials have focused their efforts on the World Bank and the IMF, which funnel billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan and manage some of the government’s overseas reserves.
As America ends its war in Afghanistan after 20 years, a WSJ analysis of data shows how the Taliban gradually took back control of the country and expanded its military presence after being toppled in 2001. Photo Illustration: George Downs Estimates of the Taliban’s annual combined revenues range from $300 million to upward of $1.6 billion a year, according to a June report from the U.N. Security Council, which oversees sanctions on Afghan terrorist factions.
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