Taliban Ask for More Foreign Aid as UN Pledges Over $1 Billion

The Taliban asked for additional humanitarian aid from the the international community a day after the United Nations raised more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges to help the country recover from two decades of war.

“It is known that the people of Afghanistan have been reeling under the brunt of war for forty years,” Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of Taliban, told reporters in Kabul Tuesday. “That’s why we hope the international community will lend a helping hand to Afghanistan in various domains.”