The US has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, Bloomberg quoted an administration official as saying on Tuesday. The official said that any central ...
Former US Vice President Mike Pence accused President Biden of showing “weakness” toward the Taliban and insisted the crisis in Afghanistan wouldn’t have happened if US troops left the country sooner. Pence, who served as vice president under former President Donald Trump, penned an op-ed, published on Tuesday, for The ...