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World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024. [4] Other UN agencies gave lesser amounts. According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021. [5]
Executive Order 14064, officially titled Protecting Certain Property of Da Afghanistan Bank for the Benefit of the People of Afghanistan, was signed on February 11, 2022 and is the 80th executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. The goal of the order is providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people by using frozen assets.
After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, the Biden administration froze the funds in New York, because it was unclear who had the legal authority to access the account. [3]On 11 February 2022, President Joe Biden announced that he intended to move $3.5 billion from the account to a trust fund to support humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, and reserve $3.5 billion for potential legal claims ...
"It's hard to see Republicans winning elections on a campaign promise to go back to war in Afghanistan in 2022 or 2024," says a Democratic consultant. Biden bets war-weary America will reward him ...
Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during ...
One area in which Biden was on the defense, was his 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which Trump and many Republicans say showed weakness and provided an opening for Russia to ...
The United States–Taliban deal, officially known as the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan between the United States of America and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (commonly known as the Taliban and not recognized by the United States as a state) and commonly known as the Doha Accord, [1] was a peace agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 in ...
“It’s going to be hard until the situation stabilizes,” said one expert.