Taliban, Afghanistan

Two Americans released by Taliban in final deal of Biden administration
The Taliban are believed to have two other American nationals in their custody – Mahmoud Shah Habibi, a senior civil aviation official under the previous Nato-backed government of Afghanistan and George Glezmann, a tourist. The Taliban have not acknowledged holding Mr Habibi in their custody, and details about his condition are unknown.
U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
The Taliban said they had been in talks with the Biden administration to exchange Afghans in U.S. custody for Americans detained in Afghanistan.
US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
Taliban announce the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has announced the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange. In a statement Tuesday, the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul did not name the two U.S. citizens,
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: How US spies found al-Qaeda's top man in Kabul
Last year, during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden pledged his administration would not allow the new Taliban ... of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.
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Where Is Ayman Al-Zawahiri? New Video Reignites Questions
especially in the wake of the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, and whether or not Ayman Al-Zawahiri and others will reappear to public life under the new regime. Ayman Al-Zawahiri ...
National Review2y
Zawahiri Deserves to Rot
The al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri has rejoined his co-conspirator ... And, in fact, his ability to do so was bolstered by the Taliban’s return to, and consolidation of, power in ...
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Drone strike kills Al Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
An curved arrow pointing right. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri — the FBI's most-wanted terrorist and Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant — was killed in a US air strike July 31. More from News ...
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Pentagon report on Afghanistan excludes al Qaeda’s pledge to the Taliban
the report makes no mention whatsoever of Mullah Mansour accepting an oath of allegiance from al Qaeda’s Ayman al Zawahiri. The Taliban publicly advertised Zawahiri’s oath of allegiance, in ...
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US drone strike kills Osama bin Laden's successor as Al-Qaeda chief
Al-Zawahiri was said to have been ... the Doha Agreement,” the 2020 US pact with the Taliban that led to the withdrawal of American forces. Ayman al-Zawahri was an Egyptian-born jihadist who ...
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: US kills top al-Qaeda leader in drone strike in Afghanistan
The US has killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan ... The administration official said that senior Haqqani Taliban officials were aware that Zawahiri was at ...
Taliban-TTP planning to invade Pakistan, impose...? TTP strikes deal with Haqqani chief to...
Amidst the fears of a full-scale Pakistan-Taliban war, a new report has emerged, claiming that the Afghan Taliban had struck ...