President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to split the $7 billion in Afghan assets frozen in the U.S. to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan’s central bank to be distributed for humanitarian assistance in the country and to victims of the September 11 terror attacks.
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August, Afghan assets in the United States were frozen. On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to allocate $7 billion of those frozen funds to Afghanistan’s humanitarian aid and 9/11 victims.
President Joe Biden is expected to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the American funding system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan
If transfer of the funds is ultimately cleared by the courts, half will be made available to Sept. 11 families suing the Taliban and the other half will go to Afghan humanitarian assistance.
President Biden signed an executive order on Friday that aims to ultimately free up half of $7 billion in assets from Afghanistan’s central bank that is held in the United States, intending to use half of the funds for families
Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan
The former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai called President Biden's plans of freeing up U.S.-held Afghan government funds to compensate 9/11 victims families an "atrocity" against Afghans.
President Biden has signed an executive order detailing how the U.S will deal with about $7 billion in assets that Afghanistan's central bank stored in New York before the Taliban takeover.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.
