Following the Taliban’s takeover of the country on 15 August, the US announced it wouldn’t allow the new regime to access government funds, including financial…
The US administration has frozen accounts at American banks that hosted part of Afghanistan’s national reserves, cutting off the Taliban’s access to the money left over from the previous government, The Washington Post has reported. The decision was made by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and officials from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the media outlet said, citing an anonymous source in the government. The asset freeze was reportedly carried out under sanctions implemented against the Taliban in the follow-up of the 9/11 attacks.
