US Considering Taliban Sanctions, Senior Official Says
The U.S. may turn to more sanctions to retain leverage over the Taliban after President Joe Biden decided to withdraw U.S. troops from the country, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Aug. 17. Sullivan said the U.S.…
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will use various foreign policy “tools” to address human rights violations by the Taliban, but he declined to elaborate much further. “I’m not going to go into the full panoply of things that we can do,” he said, “but there are obviously issues related to sanctions” and “other steps” the U.S. can take.