The Afghan central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP)
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will start to clear a legal path for certain relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion from assets that Afghanistan’s central bank had deposited in New York before the Taliban takeover, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.©2019 New York Times News Service