US-Taliban relations thaw amid race for Afghanistan’s mineral riches

US-Taliban relations thaw amid race for Afghanistan’s mineral riches

The Trump administration has dropped multimillion-dollar bounties on senior Afghan officials from the Haqqani network, a militant faction that carried out some of the deadliest attacks on American troops but has now positioned itself as a moderate wing within the Taliban government. The “largely symbolic” move this week came days after the US sent its first major diplomatic mission to Kabul since the Taliban took power in 2021, securing the rele…

If the major Western countries do not publicly assume this responsibility, they are now aligning themselves, in the name of the fight against terrorism, but also to preserve a role in the region, on the line advocated by the United Nations, aimed at reintegrating the regime into the international community.