U.S. Wrestles With Taliban Sanctions as Afghan Crisis Looms

America’s war in Afghanistan is over, but the fight over the Taliban’s finances is only beginning.

The fate of billions of dollars of international reserves and foreign aid represents its own set of politically and legally fraught decisions as the world comes to grips with what Afghanistan will look like under Taliban rule. The stakes are extraordinarily high, as millions of Afghans face the prospect of becoming collateral damage from a stranglehold of sanctions on the Taliban that remain in place, threatening to sink an economy that the United States has spent two decades trying to prop up.

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