2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap
Two other American captives remain in Afghanistan: George Glezmann, a former airline mechanic, and Mahmood Habibi, a ...
Two Americans held in Afghanistan traded for Taliban prisoner in final Biden deal delayed until Trump took office
In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...
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The ICC files for arrest warrants of Taliban officials for brutally oppressing LGBTQ+ people
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said that anti-LGBTQ+ oppression in the country is part of the Taliban's ...
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Biden brags about disastrous Afghanistan pullout that left 13 US service members dead during end-of-term speech
“Today, I can also report to the American people [as] the first president in decades who’s not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor,” the 82-year-old boasted at the State ...
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U.S. Presses for Release of Americans Held in Afghanistan
The White House has discussed a possible swap with the Taliban for a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, according to people familiar with the matter. By Julian E. Barnes and Carol Rosenberg Julian ...
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Biden spoke with families of Americans detained in Afghanistan, White House says
WASHINGTON —President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with the families of three Americans detained in Afghanistan by its Taliban rulers since 2022, and emphasized his commitment to bringing home ...
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Afghanistan faces a complex set of challenges in 2025 — here’s what you need to know
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan remains one of the most severe in the world, with 28 million people depending on aid to survive. The country’s economy has contracted by almost one-third ...
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Afghanistan Faces Multitude of Challenges in 2025
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan remains one of the most severe in the world, with 28 million people depending on aid to survive. The country’s economy has contracted by almost one ...
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Wife of American detained in Afghanistan heads to Mar-a-Lago to beg Trump to take up prisoner swap
EXCLUSIVE: The family of an American who has suffered two and a half years of wrongful detainment in Afghanistan told Fox ... just trying to help the Afghan people, and this is a decision that ...
Jury finds CNN defamed security consultant in Afghanistan evacuation report
CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt defended his story on Zachary Young, a security consultant who charged $14,000 or more to ...
The Taliban say a Chinese national has been killed in northeastern Afghanistan
An Afghan police official says a Chinese citizen has been killed in the country's northeast. The killing of foreigners is ...
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Afghanistan food crisis deepens as aid cuts leave many living on ‘just bread and tea’
Many people were living on just “bread and tea,” WFP Country Director Hsiao-Wei Lee told Reuters. Afghanistan was tipped to the brink of economic crisis in 2021 as the Taliban took over and ...