Bernie Sanders Urges Biden to Unfreeze Kabul's Funds to Prevent 'Death of Millions of People'

The US froze nearly $10 billion of Afghanistan’s assets, held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, in August last year, after the Taliban seized power in the central Asian nation. Around the same time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank also withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of routine aid payments to the country.