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The Taliban are megarich â hereâs where they get the money to wage war
The Talibanâs 2019-20 budget was $1.6 billion. And the militants get money from a lot of sources.
Hanif Sufizada 14 December, 2020 1:36 pm IST Text Size:
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The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.
In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who revealed the Talibanâs income sources in a confidential report commissioned by NATO and later obtained by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.