The Taliban says Washington has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster.
The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday.
The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, “went well,” with Washington freeing up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after an agreement not to link such assistance to formal recognition of the Taliban.The United States made it clear that the talks were in no way a preamble to recognition of the Taliban, who swept into power Aug. 15 after the U.S.-allied government collapsed.Afghans short-listed for the prestigious scholarship say they’ve been forgotten since the Taliban took power.
Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen also told the Associated Press that the movement’s interim foreign minister assured the U.S. during the talks that the Taliban is committed to seeing that Afghan soil is not used by extremists to launch attacks against other countries.with Washington on containing the increasingly active Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who tracks militant groups, agreed that the Taliban does not need Washington’s help to hunt down and destroy Afghanistan’s IS affiliate, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or ISKP.
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