Foreign aid to Afghanistan has been significant even since the Taliban took charge of the country in August 2021.
In December 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department issued special licenses to allow the delivery of aid from various US government agencies, international organizations such as the various arms of the United Nations, and NGOs to Afghanistan.
[2] The United States State Department provides "nearly $327 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help the people of Afghanistan"[3] according to Antony Blinken's press statement in September 2022.
World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024.
According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021.