The new Taliban administration is struggling with a devastated economy. The fallout likely will extend well beyond the country’s borders.
Now, after two decades of intense military and diplomatic engagement, the temptation in Washington—and other Western capitals—is to tune out once again. Maintaining the status quo policy of sanctions on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and minimal engagement with Kabul’s new authorities requires little immediate expenditure of political capital, even though it may be the riskiest approach over the long term.
Money changers do business at a Kabul market in late July. As the Taliban gained territory, the Afghan currency lost value and capital flight became a problem for the nation’s central bank.The Taliban, of course, are playing up such concerns to win a reprieve from sanctions, and to persuade Washington to unfreeze more than $9 billion in Afghan central-bank assets.
Taliban fighters drive an American humvee through a Kabul neighborhood as they and their comrades take over the city on Aug. 15.Wazir Nazari was shot in the face, taking both of her eyes, by Taliban fighters going door-to-door in her village in the Malistan district of central Afghanistan’s Ghazni province in early July, her father said.The camp in Saray Shamali Park in Kabul for people fleeing fighting in the north of the country, Aug. 12.Yet, in their talks with the U.S.
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