In an agreement mediated by Qatar, the Taliban administration announced Tuesday that it had freed American citizens from prison in exchange for an Afghan combatant detained in the United States.
Although discussions on the prisoner exchange were revealed last year, the exchange was made public following the handover of US President Joe Biden to Donald Trump, who took office on Monday.
According to a statement from the Afghan foreign ministry, “An Afghan fighter Khan Mohammad who was imprisoned in America has been released in exchange for American citizens and returned to the country.”
According to the ministry, Mohammad was caught “almost two decades ago” in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar and has been serving a life sentence in California.
