{"id":15221,"date":"2025-03-25T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-lifts-millions-in-bounties-on-senior-taliban-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:41:35","slug":"u-s-lifts-millions-in-bounties-on-senior-taliban-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-lifts-millions-in-bounties-on-senior-taliban-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lifts Millions in Bounties on Senior Taliban Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior American official. The move is a significant shift by the Trump administration toward militants who were behind some of the deadliest attacks during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan but have refashioned themselves as a more moderate voice within the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bounties were removed days after a U.S. hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, made the first visit by a high-ranking American diplomat to Kabul, the Afghan capital, since the Taliban seized power in 2021. His talks with Taliban representatives led to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/taliban-frees-american-aircraft-mechanic.html\" title=\"\">the release<\/a> of an American citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many Taliban officials saw the meeting in Kabul and the subsequent lifting of the bounties as a major victory for a government that was almost completely shut out by the United States during the Biden administration. The steps also put fresh momentum behind a Taliban faction that has pushed for the government to pull back on its hard-line policies to gain wider acceptance on the world stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Haqqani, his brother Abdul Azizi Haqqani and a cousin, Yahya Haqqani, no longer appear on the State Department\u2019s Rewards for Justice website. The bounty was removed on Monday from the F.B.I.\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/wanted\/terrorinfo\/sirajuddin-haqqani\/@@download.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wanted poster<\/a> for Sirajuddin Haqqani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for the Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Interior Affairs, Abdul Mateen Qani, said that \u201ca deal with the U.S. was finalized\u201d to lift the bounties, after the issue was discussed multiple times with American officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a major achievement for the Islamic Emirate,\u201d he added, referring to the Taliban government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The American official who confirmed the bounty removals spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. The Trump administration, including in a January <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecRubio\/status\/1883296982346944822\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a> by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has made clear that it could reimpose or increase bounties on Taliban leaders if additional Americans held in Afghanistan are not released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meeting on Thursday in Kabul between Trump administration and Taliban officials followed initially tense indirect interactions by the two sides. In January, President Trump demanded that the Taliban return $7 billion in American military hardware left in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal. He threatened to cut all financial aid to the country if it was not returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Taliban authorities rejected the notion, noting that the equipment had been crucial in keeping the Islamic State affiliate in the region at bay, according to two Afghan officials with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Taliban seized power, the United States has led the charge in isolating their government, which has imposed the most draconian restrictions on women in the world. Biden administration officials stressed that the United States would not ease any sanctions until those restrictions were lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as the Taliban, led by an ultraconservative cleric, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, made clear that they<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>would not bow to outside pressure, the United States became an outlier in its firm approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While no country officially recognizes the Taliban as the lawful authorities in Afghanistan, more countries in the region and in Europe have appeared to accept the limits of their influence and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/24\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-taliban-diplomacy.html\" title=\"\">engage on issues on which they can find common ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Taliban has developed a proclivity to do transactional diplomacy, quid pro quo deals,\u201d said Ibraheem Bahiss, an International Crisis Group consultant. The lifting of the U.S. bounties showed that the release of the American held in Afghanistan \u201cwas somehow reciprocated with some good will or that a transactional deal had been struck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is also a notable change in American policy toward Sirajuddin Haqqani, an ambitious political operator who embraced suicide attacks like few other Taliban leaders and was responsible for the bloodiest attacks during the U.S.-led war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2011, Mr. Haqqani\u2019s men launched a 19-hour-long assault on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. In 2017, his network was behind <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/06\/world\/asia\/kabul-bombing-death-toll-increases.html\" title=\"\">a truck bombing<\/a> that killed more than 150 people, mostly civilians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the past three years, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/24\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-sirajuddin-haqqani-taliban.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Haqqani has sought to remake his image<\/a> and engage with the West through back channels. He appears to be trying to win foreign backing that could help him as he tries to negotiate with Sheikh Haibatullah over the Taliban\u2019s most controversial policies, including the restrictions on women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/world\/europe\/icc-afghanistan-leader-women.html\" title=\"\">requested arrest warrants for Sheikh<\/a> Haibatullah and the country\u2019s chief justice for their \u201cunprecedented\u201d persecution of women and girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a victory for the engagement camp within the Taliban,\u201d Mr. Bahiss said of the lifting of the bounties. More moderate figures \u201ccan go back to hard-liners and say this is the kind of reciprocity we can get for the compromises we are advocating for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Adam Goldman<!-- --> and <!-- -->Safiullah Padshah<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/world\/asia\/taliban-haqqani-bounties.html\">Source 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