process. The Taliban also called for an international humanitarian assistance, in which the US provided $55 million. In August 2022, the Biden administration decided it would not release the 7 billion USD held by the Afghan Central Bank on U.S. soil. After a recent U.S. terrorism intervention in central Kabul, killing al Qa’ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the U.S. abandoned earlier talks with the Taliban because of international security reasons. In a letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, a number of renowned international economists called for Washington and other nations to release 9 billion USD in Afghan central bank assets because "without access to its foreign reserves, the central bank of Afghanistan cannot carry out its normal, essential functions." In mid-September 2022, the Biden administration decided to transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets to the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which supports the liquidity of central banks. The governing Taliban had condemned the transfer and insisted on direct payments to the Afghan Central Bank. See also Foreign relations of Afghanistan Foreign relations of the United States Afghan Americans References Further reading Bacon, Tricia, and Daniel Byman. "De-Talibanization and the Onset of Insurgency in Afghanistan." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2021): 1-25. Connah, Leoni. "US intervention in Afghanistan: Justifying the Unjustifiable?" South Asia Research 41.1 (2021): 70–86. online D’Souza, Shanthie Mariet. "Taliban: The Rebels Who Aspire to Be Rulers" Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 3#1 (2016): 20–40. Greentree, Todd. "What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?" The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 51.4 (2021): 7-22. online Jabeen, Mussarat, et al. "US Afghan Relations: A Historical Perspective of Events of 9/11." South Asian Studies 25.1 (2020). online Jones, Seth. In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (2009) excerpt Lebow, Richard Ned, and Janice Gross Stein. "Afghanistan, Carter, and foreign policy change: The limits of cognitive models." in Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership (Routledge, 2019) pp. 95-127. Lyon, The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 (2021) Malkasian, Carter. The American War in Afghanistan: A History (2021), a major scholarly history excerpt Phillips, Colonel Richard L. American Nation Building in Afghanistan (U.S. Army War College, 2009} online Raghavan, Srinath. The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia. (Penguin Random House India, 2018); also published as Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in