Family of American says he was freed by Taliban in swap

Family of American says he was freed by Taliban inside swap

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American contractor held hostage inside Afghanistan for additional than set of two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, while a Taliban medicine lord jailed by the United States was too freed with every one other accompanied by returned to Kabul.

Mark Frerichs, a Navy former soldierold hand who had spent additional than a decade inside Afghanistan while a civilian contractor, was abducted inside January 2020 with every one other accompanied by was believed to have been since at that hour dated by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.

Negotiations for his release had centered on a deal that would too involve the release of Bashir Noorzai, a notorious medicine lord with every one other accompanied by subscriber of the Taliban who told reporters inside Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years with every one other accompanied by sextet months inside U.S. captivity

The Biden management did not straight away corroborate details of the convict swap, nevertheless a female sibling of Frerichs, who is from Lombard, Illinois, thanked U.S. management officials who helped firm her brother's release.

"I am so contented to hear that my male sibling casual broBritish casual bruvver is protected from danger with every one other accompanied by on his way place of residence to us. Our family has prayed for this every one day of the additional than 31 months he has been a hostage. We never gave up hope that he would survive with every one other accompanied by go nearer place of residence safely to us," said a statement from the sister, Charlene Cakora.

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In Afghanistan, Noorzai told reporters at a press conference that he had been released from an unspecified U.S. prison with every one other accompanied by handed over earlier inside the day to the Taliban inside Kabul, inside exchange for an American convict held inside Afghanistan whom he did not identify.

Other Taliban officials claimed Noorzai was held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, nevertheless did not provide speak anything to support that claim.

The Taliban-appointed overseas minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, too spoke at the press conference alongside Noorzai with every one other accompanied by welcomed the exchange, saying it marked the start of a "new era" inside U.S.-Taliban relations.

Frerichs, abducted on Jan. 31, 2020, was last seen inside a video distributed earlier this year, pleading for his release so that he tin exist reunited accompanied by his family, according to a recording posted by The New Yorker magazine at the time.

"This tin exist a new chapter in the centre of Afghanistan with every one other accompanied by the United States, this tin not shut a new door for talks in the centre of both countries," Muttaqi said at the Kabul presser.

"This take deed shows us that all problems tin exist solved into and not here of talks with every one other accompanied by I express gratitude to both sides' teams who worked so firm for this to happen," Muttaqi added.

Frerichs, of Lombard, Illinois, was believed to exist held by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, with every one other accompanied by U.S. officials across set of two presidential administrations had tried unsuccessfully to obtain him home. In the video, which marked the earliest hour dated Frerichs was seen since his abduction, he says it was filmed last November.

Videos of hostages are occasionally released to show proof that they are living with every one other accompanied by to facilitate negotiations for a release, though it was not straight away understandable if that was the instance here. The New Yorker said it obtained the clip from an unidentified individual inside Afghanistan.

At the time, the FBI declined to remark on the video's authenticity, nevertheless a female sibling of Frerichs, Charlene Cakora, issued a statement thanking the Taliban for releasing the video with every one other accompanied by describing it while "public confirmation of our family's long-held belief that he is living following additional than set of two years inside captivity."

Since their takeover of Afghanistan inside August last year, the Taliban have demanded the United States release Noorzai inside exchange for Frerichs amid expectations of such exchanges for U.S. citizens held inside Afghanistan.

However, there has been no indeed condition sign of Washington moving forward on some type of convict commerce or exchange.

The Taliban too posted a brief video Monday on communal media showing Noorzai's coming at the Kabul airfield where he was welcomed by top Taliban officials, including Muttaqi.

At the press conference, Noorzai expressed thankfulness at seeing his "mujahedeen brothers" — a allude to of to the Taliban — inside Kabul.

"I pray for additional favourable consequence of the Taliban," he added. "I hope this exchange tin lead to tranquillity in the centre of Afghanistan with every one other accompanied by America, since an American was released with every one other accompanied by I am too without charge now."

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Faiez reported from Islamabad.

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The Biden management has been slow to thew up staff with every one other accompanied by overcome the enormous backlog, mainly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to advocates.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Those numbers exclude the violently 180,000 Afghans with every one other accompanied by Ukrainians who were mostly admitted into and not here of humanitarian parole, a temporary legal option that was intended to obtain them inside quicker nevertheless left-hand them accompanied by less management support.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Regular Americans helped become full that need, Afghan families say. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Under the Sponsor Circle Program for Afghans, participants underwent background checks, received training with every one other accompanied by developed a three-month plan. 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Many ended up inside California, staying inside hotels since of the lack of affordable housing, with every one other accompanied by with fair trio months of management assistance. \u003c/p>\u003cp>He said his sponsor ring gave his family 10 months price of hire ask in remittance with every one other accompanied by a car, with every one other accompanied by someone still checks on him, his spouse with every one other accompanied by sextet children daily. Each ring gets a mentor who coaches them from \u003ca href=\"https://www.welcomenst.org/\">WelcomeNST\u003c/a>, an organization created inside 2021 to assist Americans resettle Afghans with every one other accompanied by now Ukrainians. The organization offers a Slack strait for circles with every one other accompanied by partners accompanied by the resettlement agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hias.org/\">HIAS\u003c/a>, which connects them to caseworkers when needed. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The New Hampshire team has additional than 60 members helping people exist fond of Walizada.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I be in touch exist fond of I have a a large amount of family here now,\" Walizada said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>To exist sure, uniform Americans have always helped resettle refugees, nevertheless not at this scale since the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act created the ceremonial program, experts say. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>A similar outpouring of goodwill happened when the Biden management launched Uniting for Ukraine, which allows Ukrainians fleeing the war into the U.S. for set of two years accompanied by a private sponsor. 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Teenage girls are still barred from educational organization with every one other accompanied by women are required to cover themselves from head to toe inside public, accompanied by only their eyes showing. The devout category has failed to deliver on various promises to authorize girls' return to the classroom. The ban targets grades 7-12, primarily impacting girls number of years 12 to 18.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The Taliban re-opened high schools to boys while instructing girls to carry on accompanied by to exist at home. The U.N. estimates that additional than a million girls have been barred from attending high educational organization over the past year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"The ongoing exclusion of girls from high educational organization has no indeed credible justification with every one other accompanied by has no indeed side by side anywhere inside the world. It is profoundly damaging to a number of years of girls with every one other accompanied by to the future of Afghanistan itself," said Potzel, who is too the U.N. secretary-general's deputy exceptional representative for Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:553182830256' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='d342ae0c186e4c243a87f2cd4c745040'>Hub peek embed (Afghanistan) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>To mark the Sunday anniversary, 50 girls sent a letter entitled "A Year of Darkness: A Letter from Afghan girls to heads of Muslim countries with every one other accompanied by other world leaders." The girls hail from the first city Kabul, eastern Nangarhar province with every one other accompanied by northern Parwan province.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"The past year, we have been denied anthropoid rights, such while the just to attain an education, the privilege to work, the liberty to exist accompanied by dignity, freedom, mobility with every one other accompanied by speech, with every one other accompanied by the just to determine with every one other accompanied by resolve for ourselves," Azadi, an 18-year-old 11th-grade student from Kabul, said inside the letter. The girls named inside the letter gave only their earliest names. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.N. said the denial of education violates the most fundamental rights of girls with every one other accompanied by women. The world body said it increases the chance of marginalization, violence, exploitation with every one other accompanied by abuse opposed to girls with every one other accompanied by is small portion of a broader range of discriminatory policies with every one other accompanied by practices targeting women with every one other accompanied by girls since the de facto authorities assumed ability inside the summer of 2021.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The U.N. on one occasion additional called upon the Taliban to reverse the slew of measures they have introduced restricting Afghan women with every one other accompanied by girls' enjoyment of their basic rights with every one other accompanied by freedoms. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Since taking power, the Taliban have struggled to govern with every one other accompanied by carry on accompanied by to exist internationally isolated. An monetary downturn has driven millions additional Afghans into penury with every one other accompanied by hunger while the run of overseas assistance has slowed to a trickle.\u003c/p>","alertLinkDateTime":null,"storyLayout":{},"reporters":[],"headlinePlacement":null,"relatedStoryEmbeds":[],"disableNativo":false}]},{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252","shortId":"urn:publicid:ap.org:644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252","allowAd":true,"borderColor":null,"cardTitle":null,"cardHeadline":null,"cardType":"Wire Story","collectionTagObjs":null,"embedCardTitleColor":null,"disclaimerText":null,"dividerColor":null,"expandedStoryCount":null,"headlineWidget":false,"hubPeekLinkText":null,"hubPeekTagId":null,"hubPeekTagName":null,"hubPeekCanonicalName":null,"hubPeekIsPr":null,"minimizedStoryCount":null,"tagObjs":[{"id":"Afghanistan","name":"Afghanistan","canonicalName":"afghanistan","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-asiapac","name":"Asia Pacific","canonicalName":"asia-pacific","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-religion","name":"Religion","canonicalName":"religion","isPr":false},{"id":"Taliban","name":"Taliban","canonicalName":"taliban","isPr":false},{"id":"AmnestyInternational","name":"Amnesty International","canonicalName":"amnesty-international","isPr":false}],"textColor":null,"layoutType":null,"customLayoutType":null,"styleName":null,"endDateTime":null,"notificationUrl":null,"notificationText":null,"notificationTitle":null,"notificationType":null,"notificationUpdated":null,"contents":[{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252","shortId":"644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252","bylines":"By RAHIM FAIEZ","canonicalUrl":"afghanistan-religion-taliban-amnesty-international","contentType":"text","disableConnatix":false,"downloadSettings":{},"embedCaption":null,"embedHeight":null,"embedHTML":null,"embedLinkURL":null,"firstWords":"\u003cp>ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights category released a harrowing report Friday concerning sextet members of an extended minority Shiite family inside Afghanistan who were brutally killed by the Taliban earlier this summer.\u003c/p>","hasTextOverlay":false,"headline":"Amnesty says 6 from minority Shiite family killed by Taliban","description":null,"interactiveLinkUrl":null,"interactiveLinkUrlText":null,"language":"en","leadPhotoId":null,"leadVideoId":null,"localLinkUrl":"https://apnews.com/644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252","localMemberName":null,"media":[],"audioMedia":[],"mediumIds":[],"mediaCount":0,"published":"2022-09-16 14:32:57","tagObjs":[{"id":"Afghanistan","name":"Afghanistan","canonicalName":"afghanistan","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-asiapac","name":"Asia Pacific","canonicalName":"asia-pacific","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-religion","name":"Religion","canonicalName":"religion","isPr":false},{"id":"Taliban","name":"Taliban","canonicalName":"taliban","isPr":false},{"id":"AmnestyInternational","name":"Amnesty International","canonicalName":"amnesty-international","isPr":false}],"updated":"2022-09-16 14:32:37","tagIds":["Afghanistan","apf-asiapac","apf-religion","Taliban","AmnestyInternational","apf-GeneralNews"],"title":"AS--Afghanistan","contentSponsor":null,"layoutType":"Text","stackedStory":true,"notificationId":null,"eyebrow":null,"richEmbeds":[{"id":"afs:Card:553182830256","tag":null,"type":"Hub Peek","calloutText":null,"displayName":null,"leadHubLink":null,"richEmbedDetail":{"data":6,"rule":"seo","style":"Column List"},"isPermanentlyPlaced":true}],"sponsored":false,"contentBundle":null,"movieTitle":null,"immersiveUrl":null,"embedRatio":null,"embedType":null,"pullQuoteObjs":[],"dateline":null,"leadVideoAutoEmbed":false,"flattenedFirstWords":"ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights category released a harrowing report Friday concerning sextet members of an extended minority Shiite family inside Afghanistan who were brutally killed by the Talib...","isTpContent":false,"socialEmbeds":[],"isPrContent":false,"storyHTML":"\u003cp>ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights category released a harrowing report Friday concerning sextet members of an extended minority Shiite family inside Afghanistan who were brutally killed by the Taliban earlier this summer. It accused Afghanistan's new rulers of blatant disregard of anthropoid rights with every one other accompanied by abuse of minorities. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Amnesty International said the slain Hazaras included a 12-year-old child inside what the rights category said was a deliberate assault on the ethnic minority. The killings took place inside Ghor province on June 26 with every one other accompanied by symbolize proof of how the Taliban have failed to set up an inclusive management since seizing ability fair over a year ago, Amnesty said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Taliban swept into Kabul, the Afghan capital, with every one other accompanied by captured most of the relax of the country inside a blitz inside August 2021, while U.S. with every one other accompanied by NATO troops were inside the final weeks of their way out from Afghanistan following 20 years of war. The country's Western-backed management with every one other accompanied by military crumbled inside the face of the Taliban assault. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>According to Amnesty, on the darkness of June 26, Taliban forces raided the place of residence of Mohamad Muradi, a Hazara with every one other accompanied by a former safety official inside Ghor. Muradi had too led a local militia that fought the Taliban inside 2020 with every one other accompanied by 2021.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:553182830256' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='644f297e41c54659c1e77d03c2705252'>Hub peek embed (Afghanistan) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>After the Taliban takeover, Muradi had attempted to get away to Iran nevertheless failed with every one other accompanied by not long ago returned place of residence to the Lal-wa Sarjangal neighbourhood inside Ghor, where he was inside hiding. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Amnesty's report cited witnesses while saying that the Taliban assault began at night, accompanied by rocket-propelled grenades thrown at Muradi's place of residence that instantly killed his 22-year-old daughter, Taj Gul Muradi. Muradi himself, with every one other accompanied by set of two other children, a son with every one other accompanied by a daughter, 12, were at first wounded. The girl died of her wounds the following day, Amnesty said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>A wounded Muradi surrendered to the Taliban into and not here of mediation by local elders, nevertheless was dragged not here of the house with every one other accompanied by killed. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Three other men — Muradi's nephew, Ghulam Haider Mohammadi, with every one other accompanied by set of two other relatives, both former anti-Taliban militiamen — who were visiting the family were too killed, Amnesty said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>According to witnesses, the set of two relatives — Asif Rezayee with every one other accompanied by Arif Sangaree — were taken by the Taliban with every one other accompanied by driven away. Their bodies were subsequent found additional than a 30 minutes' operate from Muradi's home. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Amnesty said its report was based on eight separate interviews, done remotely with every one other accompanied by with witnesses of the attack, with every one other accompanied by too on analysis of photos with every one other accompanied by video footage taken inside the aftermath of the killings. \u003c/p>\u003cp>It was not understandable from the report what happened to Muradi's wounded son, other members of his immediate family with every one other accompanied by other relatives who may have been at the house throughout the attack. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The London-based watchdog urged the Taliban to inquire into the killings with every one other accompanied by "ensure that those in charge of are prosecuted inside accordance accompanied by international anthropoid rights obligations with every one other accompanied by standards." It suggested that if Afghanistan's new rulers cannot provide justice, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court should not shut a filled investigation. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The Taliban must straight away extremity this cruel design of targeted killings and, while the de facto authorities, build sure the defence of all Afghans," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty's secretary general.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The international community, wary of the Taliban's harsh regulation when they were last inside ability inside the late 1990s, has withheld official recognition of their new administration. 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But it is now \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-europe-middle-east-syria-109927ade3b86bf8f4190cee96204bcb\">slowly rebuilding some centre capabilities\u003c/a> inside Iraq with every one other accompanied by Syria with every one other accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-afghanistan-taliban-pakistan-religion-9bcf86bdc4b7f3e5aa2553f649538b62\">increasingly fighting local governments\u003c/a> inside places including Afghanistan, where an affiliate of the IS group, too known by the acronym ISIS, is fighting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-covid-entertainment-health-ashraf-ghani-458d17a5eba416b2845e127ecbe35ebc\">the ruling Taliban\u003c/a> following the U.S. withdrawal. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"If the United States with every one other accompanied by our partners pull spine or withdraw further from areas where ISIS is active, the group's trajectory will increasingly be contingent on on local governments' will with every one other accompanied by ability to become full the resulting safety voids," says the report, originally published inside classified form inside May 2020, months following then-President Donald Trump's management reached \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bahrain-afghanistan-qatar-united-arab-emirates-dubai-a0b1e2fa69b051fef177c87734301a38\">an agreement\u003c/a> accompanied by the Taliban to pull not here American troops. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:738076027554' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='beefc4e955235e110cc7468b21e95428'>Hub peek embed (IslamicStategroup) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>Biden with every one other accompanied by top national safety officials have cited the recent \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ayman-al-zawahri-al-qaida-terrorism-biden-36e5f10256c9bc9972b252849eda91f2\">strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri\u003c/a> while proof that America maintains an "over-the-horizon" counterterrorism capacity inside Afghanistan following the withdrawal. U.S. exceptional forces too \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abu-ibrahim-al-hashimi-al-qurayshi-is-syria-raid-fab8258e4ac5be4a90702d429ee693e6\">killed the head of the Islamic State group\u003c/a> inside a February raid inside northwest Syria. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how solemn this threat environment remains,\" said Christy Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Thursday. But she added that analysts exist convinced by the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland is "less acute than we've seen it\" at some hour dated since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/new-york-government-and-politics-c5e1bcbcf3327938bb3c1a34e4807a5d\">the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Analysts have not long ago seen grow inside IS category branches around the world, mainly inside Africa, said Abizaid, who spoke at the Intelligence with every one other accompanied by National Security Summit external outside Washington. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Afghanistan is a really interesting tale down those lines concerning where the ISIS affiliate is with every one other accompanied by how we carry on accompanied by to exist worried concerning it," she said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Some external outside analysts speak al-Zawahri's evident presence inside downtown Kabul suggests that extremist groups are additional comfortable operating inside Afghanistan — with every one other accompanied by that it will exist tougher to work outside the Islamic State category while it grows across the country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bruce Hoffman, older fellow for counterterrorism at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, called the May 2020 report "very clear-eyed with every one other accompanied by forthright."\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It's extremely different operating opposed to ISIS inside the isolated peak redoubts or deep valleys of Afghanistan," he said. "The advantages that enabled us to so brilliantly lay clasp of not here al-Zawahri, I would guess, are away external outside of Kabul."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>While the White House last month released declassified points from an intellectual capacity evaluation saying al-Qaida had not reconstituted inside Afghanistan, the points did not address the Islamic State inside Khorasan, the local IS category affiliate. IS-K was in charge of for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/europe-france-evacuations-kabul-9e457201e5bbe75a4eb1901fedeee7a1\">killing 13 U.S. troops\u003c/a> external outside the Kabul airfield throughout the withdrawal with every one other accompanied by has continued to mount an insurgency opposed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-what-to-know-1a74c9cd866866f196c478aba21b60b6\">the Taliban now inside jurisdiction of the country\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The National Security Council said inside a statement that the U.S. is employed to deny "ISIS-K access to financing, disrupt with every one other accompanied by deter overseas terrorist fighters from reaching Afghanistan with every one other accompanied by the region, with every one other accompanied by work outside ISIS-K's brutal extremism."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The May 2020 report was declassified this August with every one other accompanied by published online last week by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI periodically declassifies with every one other accompanied by releases older intellectual capacity assessments. A spokesperson for the ODNI's National Counterterrorism Center declined to answer questions concerning the evaluation or address the intellectual capacity community's contemporaneous view on the Islamic State group. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The report predicts that the Islamic State group's worldwide branches are probable to grow its \"capability to behaviour attacks inside numerous regions of the world, including the West." The U.S. would additional probable face attacks from people inspired by the group's ideology than plots directed or supported by the group, the report said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Pressure by local governments where the IS category is operative with every one other accompanied by their international partners "almost certainly will form the scale of ISIS' resurgence inside Iraq with every one other accompanied by Syria with every one other accompanied by its expansion worldwide," the report said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Experts commonly concur accompanied by the report's predictions, said Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism who is director of research for The Soufan Group, an intellectual capacity with every one other accompanied by safety consultancy. But top intellectual capacity analysts would have been associated accompanied by inside drafting with every one other accompanied by reviewing the assessment, formally known while a national intellectual capacity estimate, he said. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Clarke noted some recent IS-linked attacks inside Afghanistan, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-russia-ukraine-explosions-kabul-00bf5815018fb152be8784f6f3af2557\">an evident self-destruction bombing\u003c/a> external outside the Russian embassy inside Kabul that killed set of two diplomats, while well while ongoing fighting in the centre of militants with every one other accompanied by U.S.-backed forces at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-middle-east-syria-arrests-government-and-politics-2c7d48abf5e8bc0591f4d2b8b2e86eb4\">a sprawling bivouac inside Syria\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"There are some things that have happened inside the last few weeks,\" he said, "that build you awe if the circumstances is not additional dire than is actuality presented." \u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Follow the AP's coverage of the Islamic State category at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/islamic-state-group\">https://apnews.com/hub/islamic-state-group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>","alertLinkDateTime":null,"storyLayout":{},"reporters":[],"headlinePlacement":null,"relatedStoryEmbeds":[],"disableNativo":false}]}],"headlineWidget":null,"hubPeekLinkText":null,"hubPeekTagId":"Afghanistan","hubPeekTagName":"Afghanistan","hubPeekCanonicalName":"afghanistan","hubPeekIsPr":false,"minimizedStoryCount":null,"tagObjs":[],"textColor":"#000000","layoutType":"Column List","customLayoutType":"null","styleName":"Compressed","endDateTime":null,"teamLimit":25,"medalCounts":null,"medalsUpdated":null,"olympicYear":null,"notificationUrl":null,"notificationText":null,"notificationTitle":null,"notificationType":null,"notificationUpdated":null,"adUnits":null,"displayPositionHome":null,"displayPositionApp":null,"featuredCard":null,"publishedDate":"2021-08-15 11:22:50","enableTblRegion":false}},"loadedAt":{"afs:Card:553182830256-f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c":1663586471654},"expiration":120000},"content":{"loading":{},"error":{},"data":{"urn:publicid:ap.org:f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c":{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c","shortId":"f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c","etag":"f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c_8a10aza0c0","bylines":"By ERIC TUCKER with every one other accompanied by RAHIM FAIEZ","contentType":"text","disableConnatix":false,"downloadSettings":{},"embedCaption":null,"embedHeight":null,"embedHTML":null,"embedLinkURL":null,"firstWords":"\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — An American contractor held hostage inside Afghanistan for additional than set of two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, while a Taliban medicine lord jailed by the United States was too freed with every one other accompanied by returned to Kabul.\u003c/p>","hasTextOverlay":false,"headline":"Family of American says he was freed by Taliban inside swap","description":null,"interactiveLinkUrl":null,"interactiveLinkUrlText":null,"language":"en","leadPhotoId":"9289827e071e47609046537fc3774886","leadVideoId":null,"localLinkUrl":"https://apnews.com/f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c","localMemberName":null,"media":[{"id":"9289827e071e47609046537fc3774886","type":"Photo","caption":"\u003cp>Bashir Noorzai, center, a older Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo attends his release ceremony, at the Intercontinental Hotel, inside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. 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Our family has prayed for this every one day of the additional than 31 months he has been a hostage. We never gave up hope that he would survive with every one other accompanied by go nearer place of residence safely to us,\" said a statement from the sister, Charlene Cakora.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:553182830256' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='f8e9985237f10c341fb5af252bf7c41c'>Hub peek embed (Afghanistan) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>In Afghanistan, Noorzai told reporters at a press conference that he had been released from an unspecified U.S. prison with every one other accompanied by handed over earlier inside the day to the Taliban inside Kabul, inside exchange for an American convict held inside Afghanistan whom he did not identify. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Other Taliban officials claimed Noorzai was held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, nevertheless did not provide speak anything to support that claim. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Taliban-appointed overseas minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, too spoke at the press conference alongside Noorzai with every one other accompanied by welcomed the exchange, saying it marked the start of a "new era\" inside U.S.-Taliban relations. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Frerichs, abducted on Jan. 31, 2020, was last seen inside a video distributed earlier this year, pleading for his release so that he tin exist reunited accompanied by his family, according to a recording posted by The New Yorker magazine at the time. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"This tin exist a new chapter in the centre of Afghanistan with every one other accompanied by the United States, this tin not shut a new door for talks in the centre of both countries,\" Muttaqi said at the Kabul presser. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"This take deed shows us that all problems tin exist solved into and not here of talks with every one other accompanied by I express gratitude to both sides' teams who worked so firm for this to happen," Muttaqi added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Frerichs, of Lombard, Illinois, was believed to exist held by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, with every one other accompanied by U.S. officials across set of two presidential administrations had tried unsuccessfully to obtain him home. In the video, which marked the earliest hour dated Frerichs was seen since his abduction, he says it was filmed last November. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Videos of hostages are occasionally released to show proof that they are living with every one other accompanied by to facilitate negotiations for a release, though it was not straight away understandable if that was the instance here. The New Yorker said it obtained the clip from an unidentified individual inside Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\u003cp>At the time, the FBI declined to remark on the video's authenticity, nevertheless a female sibling of Frerichs, Charlene Cakora, issued a statement thanking the Taliban for releasing the video with every one other accompanied by describing it while "public confirmation of our family's long-held belief that he is living following additional than set of two years inside captivity."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Since their takeover of Afghanistan inside August last year, the Taliban have demanded the United States release Noorzai inside exchange for Frerichs amid expectations of such exchanges for U.S. citizens held inside Afghanistan. \u003c/p>\u003cp>However, there has been no indeed condition sign of Washington moving forward on some type of convict commerce or exchange. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Taliban too posted a brief video Monday on communal media showing Noorzai's coming at the Kabul airfield where he was welcomed by top Taliban officials, including Muttaqi. \u003c/p>\u003cp>At the press conference, Noorzai expressed thankfulness at seeing his "mujahedeen brothers\" — a allude to of to the Taliban — inside Kabul.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I pray for additional favourable consequence of the Taliban," he added. 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