How September 11 victims could claim frozen Afghan reserve funds - The National

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

News Type: USIP in the News

Families of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks are hoping to draw from the $10 billion in frozen Afghan reserves as payment in damages from court cases they won years ago. Should the plaintiffs succeed, they could take more than three quarters of the frozen central bank reserves as Afghanistan deals with a cash crunch and the humanitarian crisis that followed the Taliban takeover after the US withdrawal...

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Biden Delivers on Trump’s Afghan Exit as Taliban Nears Control - Bloomberg

Thursday, August 12, 2021

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Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing criticism over the grim results that are unfolding in Afghanistan. The U.S.-trained Afghan military is shrinking back as Taliban insurgents...

Global Policy

Challenges after US troops withdrawal - Pakistan Observer

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

News Type: USIP in the News

President Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw all remaining military forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021 — likely marking a definitive end to America’s longest war just months before its two-decade anniversary. The decision fundamentally changes...

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