President Joe Biden issues an executive order consolidating the funds as part of a plan to split it between aid and 9/11 victims.
The US government has begun freeing up some $7 billion in frozen Afghan funds held in American banks on Friday – without providing Taliban access to the money. The White House announced the move as part of a plan to tackle the “widespread humanitarian crisis” in Afghanistan, which it deemed a “national emergency.”
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