27 January 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States may place a “very large bounty” on senior Taliban leaders, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seen meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahim Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Japanese Foreign Minister Iwa Takeshi from the State Department in Washington, US, January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File image

“Just hearing the Taliban are holding more American hostages than have been reported,” Rubio said in a post on the social media platform X.

“If this were true, we would immediately have to place a very large bounty on their top leaders, perhaps larger than the one we had on bin Laden,” he added.

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