a Taliban government spokesman said Wednesday, and an "exchange" for Afghans held in Guantanamo Bay had been discussed with the United States. Zabihullah Mujahid did not name the US prisoners, but ...

The United States has promised ... this regard,” Mujahid stated. The Taliban announced last month for the first time that they had discussed a possible prisoner exchange in direct talks with ...

"There was a focus on the exchange of detainees, we [are] emphasizing the importance of Afghan prisoners held by the U.S. and suggesting a swap for American citizens detained by the Taliban ...

The Taliban had been conducting deadly attacks to target Afghan prosecutors for years before taking over Kabul on Aug. 15. The newly-released prisoners ... report by the United States Institute ...

Afghanistan to pursue higher education when the Taliban took over the country in 2021. This is the story of how they made it to UD.

Our ‘negotiators’ are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages ... co-defendants soon after the prisoner exchange. A 2019 exchange with the Taliban In 2019, three high-ranking ...

Mr. Biden told President Ashraf Ghani that the United States would ... and the Taliban. Afghanistan has intervened in U.S. federal court seeking the return of an Afghan prisoner who has been ...

"The Taliban were running roughshod over us, and our intelligence wasn't picking up a thing," Rubin said. "We were looking at Afghanistan through the lens of idealism and ideology. Here we were ...

Russian President Putin said on Thursday that he was grateful to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for helping to organise the biggest U.S.-Russian prisoner swap since the Cold War.

Zalmay Khalilzad, who stepped down as the envoy for Afghanistan after the U.S. exit, has defended the deal he negotiated with the Taliban during ... continued for a prisoner exchange and as ...