Where does the Taliban get its money?

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What do we know about the finances of the Islamic fundamentalist group of about 80,000 fighters?

Primary sources of Taliban funding according to a UN report are: Drug trafficking, extortion & ransom, mineral exploitation, tax collection and donations.

Estimates of annual income range from $300M to $1.6B.

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