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U.S. Rejected Taliban Seat on Board of Fund Controlling Afghanistan's Wealth

U.S. Rejected Taliban Seat on Board of Fund Controlling Afghanistan's Wealth

Now the Taliban, which is the government, opposes the Afghan Fund. A U.S.-appointed Afghan trustee is warning Washington against weaponizing it.
By Spencer Ackerman Sep 19, 2022
The War on Terror Isn't Over, According to Biden's Justice Dept.

The War on Terror Isn't Over, According to Biden's Justice Dept.

Edited by Sam Thielman SINCE THE U.S. MILITARY departed Afghanistan a year ago, the Justice Department under President Biden has asserted in at least four cases that the end of that war has no bearing on the broader War on Terror. Crucially, these are the cases of four people
By Spencer Ackerman Aug 25, 2022
The figure of death, naked and emaciated with a cloth on his head, leans in thro door, holding an arrow in one hand.

First Impressions on the Execution of Ayman al-Zawahiri

Like Obama with Osama bin Laden, Biden did not portray Zawahiri's death as an end to the War on Terror, but instead as a kind of a kind of proof of concept. But what did it prove, and what is the concept?
By Spencer Ackerman Aug 1, 2022

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