A majority of American voters oppose providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, as they fear the money will end up in the pockets of the Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism), according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll out on Wednesday

The US government issued a general license to allow individuals to send personal remittances to Afghanistan, the Treasury Department said in a notice on Friday

First Vice President of the previous Afghan administration, Amrullah Saleh, who declared himself acting president after the Taliban (banned in Russia) takeover, urged the former leader of the country, Ashraf Ghani, to release the records of conversations with the former US representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad about the peace process

The US authorized certain transactions with the Taliban in order to allow for the flow of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, the Treasury Department said on Friday