Lawsuit Accusing Contractors of Paying Security Money to Taliban Is Expanded

WASHINGTON—Households of American infantrymen and personnel wounded or killed in Afghanistan bear accused two U.S. contractors of paying protection money to the Taliban, increasing a lawsuit filed earlier.

Two companies diagnosed in an amended complaint bought a minimal of $1.7 billion in contracts to place into effect U.S. relief initiatives in Afghanistan over nearly a decade by means of 2015, per records cited within the lawsuit.

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