More than a million children are severely malnourished and half of Afghanistan's population is going hungry. The humanitarian catastrophe is being made worse by ongoing sanctions against the Taliban.
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The Biden administration on Friday issued sanctions targeting an international financial network benefiting Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based political and military group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S.
The Biden administration on Tuesday issued sanctions against a Lebanese travel company and three businessmen for financially supporting Hezbollah, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization based in Lebanon.
and al zawahiri and other al qaeda leaders. you have to also remember that among the isis figures, there are an estimated 1,000 people with european passports. there are probably some people with american passports. if this becomes a state lit, it becomes an incubator, if you will, for another global terrorist organization. we worried about afghanistan because it was a harbor of al qaeda. this would be an actual terror state producing terror worldwide. we re talking about a force, this isis force of about 3,000 to 5,000 fighters. okay, how, matt, could they overrun the iraqi army so quickly and thoroughly? we have reports that they re just melting away, four divisions of the iraqi army, which, divisions are 15,000, 20,000 people. just vanishing. it s really a condemnation of the state of the iraqi army and the iraqi government. at the same time, we pulled out our last military advisers and trainers four years ago in iraq. so, we gave them about $14 billion worth of weapons, but we