The Iranian Foreign Ministry says the process to unblock the nation’s several billion dollar assets illegally frozen by the United States in South Korea has kicked off.

Senior Taliban representatives and a delegation of US officials held two-day talks in Qatar two years after the Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan.

Iran's overall frozen assets in Iraq amount to approximately $7 billion.

The US Justice Department announces first transfer of assets illegally confiscated from a Russian businessman to a fund to "rebuild" Ukraine.

No country has yet recognized the Taliban government and their rule over Afghanistan.

"We consider it an invasion of the property of Afghans," the Taliban spokesman said.

The United States says it is setting up a Geneva-based fund to manage billions of dollars in frozen Afghan reserves, but the interim Taliban government in Kabul wants the reserves directly transferred to the Afghan central bank.