distance The United States exits AfghanistanThe country's new leaders insist that they have improved people's lives, but for many years, Taliban has been ruled by iron fist-with the help of abandoned US military hardware.

Last year, Taliban conducted a parade to show its huge drag, including assault rifles and Hummer.

According to the report from the Ministry of National Defense in 2022, 78 aircraft, 40,000 military vehicles and more than 300,000 weapons were included, including the remaining things.

On the eve of the inauguration ceremony Mr. Trump negotiatedEssence He now requires Taliban to give back a $ 7 billion hardware.

Taliban refused.

Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesman for the Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman, told CBS News: "These are the assets of Afghanistan. They will continue to be owned by Afghanistan."

He said: "People will not reach transactions on their state assets." "They reached agreements through dialogue and participation in order to find space and fields that are interested in."

The takeover in 2021 caused despair scenes Afghan people try to escape When the Taliban warrior celebrated them to return power.

Many years later, Kabul City is obviously different.

Twenty years of war, the claustrous phobia has been gone-most of the concrete explosion walls and inspection stations have been deleted-market businessmen told CBS news that they are now safer than ever before.

Taliban's leaders said they wanted to reset with Mr. Trump after re -election.

"We want to close the war chapter and open a new chapter."

The new chapter can be written in the mine in Afghanistan, and the country is estimated to have $ 1 trillion of unprepared mineral reserves.

Mr. Trump has been paying attention to these reserves for many years. Recent research has found that the country may become the "Saudi Arabia lithium"The key metal for power supply for mobile phones and electric vehicles.

But competition will be fierce, and China and Russia have already made huge investment in Afghanistan.