“The United Nations is proposing to pay nearly $6 million for protection in Afghanistan to Taliban-run Interior Ministry personnel, whose chief is under U.N. and U.S. sanctions and wanted by the FBI,” Reuters reports.
United Nations Wants to Pay the Taliban for Security
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