The Taliban appear to be facing financial pressure since the death of their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was more adept at managing money, Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said.
"The evidence we've seen of that is an increase in their taxes to locals as they move through," Cleveland said at a press conference Wednesday in Kabul. "We believe that the death of Mullah Mansour certainly contributed to that as well."
Mansour, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's Balochistan province in May, had financial acumen that, along with his involvement in the narcotics trade, helped grow the group's war chest, Cleveland said.
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