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 one ...

Corbett was considered by the U.S. government to have been wrongfully detained by the Taliban, and talks were underway in the final days of the Biden administration for a trade but had fallen through.

Loertscher describes Rashengar as a casualty of the Biden administration not prioritizing applicants like him who were at ...

Mr. Corbett was living in Afghanistan during the chaotic American withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power. He was detained in 2022. Before leaving office, the Biden administration was trying to ...

The warning came after Rubio suggested the U.S. would consider offering large rewards for the Taliban's top figures ... was brokered under the Biden administration before it left office.

The threat comes days after the Afghan Taliban government and the United States swapped prisoners in one of the final acts of former U.S. President Joe Biden. The new top U.S. diplomat issued the ...

Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who ...

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism ...

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 ...

Recommended Videos The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul said the two U.S. citizens had been exchanged for Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two life terms in 2008. Biden, who oversaw the ...