US drops bounties on top Afghan Taliban officials

The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on leaders of Afghanistan’s feared Haqqani militant network, including the current Taliban interior minister, the State Department and the Taliban government said.

The Haqqani network was responsible for some of the deadliest attacks during the decades-long war in Afghanistan.

The men remain on Washington’s list of “specially designated global terrorists” but the bounty price has been scrapped.

Taliban interior ministry spokesman Abdul…