US-Taliban Prisoner Exchange Finalized After 6 Months of Talks
The Taliban described the agreement as a constructive demonstration of resolving disputes through dialogue. The swap comes amid ongoing tensions between the two parties, with Kabul-based sources revealing that the Taliban still holds at least five US citizens.
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Two Americans remain in Taliban custody following prisoner exchange
While the release of Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty is to be celebrated, Americans Mahmood Habibi and George Glezmann remain in Taliban custody.
US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
Americans freed in Afghanistan-U.S. prisoner swap, Taliban says
Americans Ryan Corbett and William W. McKenty III were freed, their families said. The Taliban said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan serving a life sentence in California, was released.
Two Americans freed in US-Taliban prisoner exchange
Two Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were freed in a prisoner exchange between the United States and the Taliban. The deal was brokered by former President Biden before he left office, a Trump administration official told the Associated Press.
Upstate NY man freed by Taliban in prisoner exchange after more than 2 years
An Upstate New York man has been freed by Taliban after more than two years. The family of Ryan Corbett, a U.S. citizen from the Livingston County village of Dansville, confirmed Tuesday that he was one of two Americans released in a prisoner exchange between the United States and the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul.
Two Americans released by Taliban in final deal of Biden administration
The Taliban are believed to have two other American nationals in their custody – Mahmoud Shah Habibi, a senior civil aviation ...
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Hibatullah Akhundzada: Afghanistan's reclusive Taliban leader
Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country unchallenged since reclaiming ...
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: How US spies found al-Qaeda's top man in Kabul
Last year, during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden pledged his administration would not allow the new Taliban ... of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.
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Where Is Ayman Al-Zawahiri? New Video Reignites Questions
especially in the wake of the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, and whether or not Ayman Al-Zawahiri and others will reappear to public life under the new regime. Ayman Al-Zawahiri ...
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Zawahiri Deserves to Rot
The al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri has rejoined his co-conspirator ... And, in fact, his ability to do so was bolstered by the Taliban’s return to, and consolidation of, power in ...
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U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans ... that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In addition to Rahim, the Taliban ...
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Pentagon report on Afghanistan excludes al Qaeda’s pledge to the Taliban
the report makes no mention whatsoever of Mullah Mansour accepting an oath of allegiance from al Qaeda’s Ayman al Zawahiri. The Taliban publicly advertised Zawahiri’s oath of allegiance, in ...
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Syria’s ‘delayed revolution’: An interview with Asef Bayat
The recent developments in Syria represent a new form of political change, the characteristics of which we will better ...