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#BREAKING US and Taliban carry out prisoner exchange: Taliban foreign minister Image
#UPDATE Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has confirmed that the US and Taliban have completed a prisoner swap, with an American navy veteran traded for a key ally Image
An American navy veteran detained in Afghanistan since 2020 was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for an ally who spent 17 years in a US jail for heroin smuggling, Afghanistan's foreign minister said.
Full story: u.afp.com/iZju Image
#BREAKING Biden confirms Afghan release of American engineer Image
#UPDATES "Today, we have secured the release of Mark Frerichs, and he will soon be home," Biden said in a statement, adding that the release "required difficult decisions."

📸 Biden leaving London today after Queen Elizabeth II's funeral Image
#UPDATE A senior US official says that today's prisoner exchange with the Taliban had been delayed as Biden ordered the Kabul drone strike in late July that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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