US Lifts Bounties On Senior Taliban Officials

March 23, 2025 7:13 am

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government. Sirajuddin Haqqani no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for Justice website, although the FBI website on Sunday still featured a wanted poster for him. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said the U.S. government had revoked the bounties placed on Haqqani, Abdul Aziz Haqqani, and Yahya Haqqani. Other Taliban officials hailed the developments as the beginning of normalization.