Taliban Largest Illegal Arms Dealer In The World, Says Trump
Former US President Donald Trump has labeled the Taliban as the largest illegal arms dealer in the world.
Former US President Donald Trump has labeled the Taliban as the largest illegal arms dealer in the world.
On Monday, Trump criticised the current US President Joe Biden's policies toward the Taliban during a public conversation on X Spaces. The Republican presidential candidate for the upcoming US election called the transfer of Afghanistan's funds to the Taliban the greatest folly in US history.
Trump was apparently referring to Afghanistan's assets in the US, which are currently held in a Swiss bank under the supervision of the Afghanistan Trust Fund and are not accessible to the Taliban.
He has previously claimed that the Biden administration left behind US military equipment worth approximately $85 billion in Afghanistan, which has since fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
At the Republican National Convention, where Trump officially accepted the party's nomination for the election, he stated that the Taliban has become the world's largest dealer of US weapons by selling these arms.
The former US president did not specify which countries or groups the Taliban is allegedly selling the weapons to. However, there have been previous reports of US weapons from the Afghan National Army and Security Forces being spotted in Pakistan, Kashmir, and even Palestine.
US forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021 following the signing of the Doha Agreement. This agreement was signed by Trump's administration with the Taliban but was implemented during Biden's presidency.
