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 ...
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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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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 ...
Middle East Eye1y
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 ...
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Syria’s ‘delayed revolution’: An interview with Asef Bayat
The recent developments in Syria represent a new form of political change, the characteristics of which we will better understand in the future. But there is no doubt that these events are part of the ...
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Tom Tugendhat
It's still possible to have a win-win housing policy, giving those streets that are desperate for more buildings the chance to develop them ...