I have a short piece up on GZERO Media about on the U.S. removing bounties on a handful of senior Taliban officials amid the growing push to exploit the roughly $1 trillion in minerals Washington estimates sit beneath Afghanistan.

I have a short piece up on GZERO Media about on the U.S. removing bounties on a handful of senior Taliban officials amid the growing push to exploit the roughly $1 trillion in minerals Washington estimates sit beneath Afghanistan.  

https://www.gzeromedia.com/news/watching/us-taliban-relations-thaw-amid-race-for-afghanistans-mineral-riches

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