Thousands of refugees attempting to escape the Taliban's rule could be left unaided due to President Trump's executive order enforcing a 90-day ban.

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.

An Afghan police official says a Chinese citizen has been killed in the country's northeast. The killing of foreigners is rare in Afghanistan, especially since the withdrawal of foreign troops in 2021.

Two Americans have been freed in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s Taliban in exchange for a Taliban figure, officials said Tuesday.

The family thanked both the Biden and Trump administrations for "countless hours of negotiations, unwavering support, and determination."

Americans Ryan Corbett and William W. McKenty III were freed, their families said. The Taliban said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan serving a life sentence in California, was released.

The last-minute deal was the final capstone in Biden’s campaign to release dozens of Americans detained abroad.

The U.S. refugee program is considered one of the most rigorous on the globe, providing a pathway to safe haven for those fleeing danger or who has faced persecution due to their race, religion, nationality or political views.

The U.S. government doesn’t send funds directly to the Taliban, but it has acknowledged that the terrorist group has pressured humanitarian groups to turn over U.S.

Ryan Corbett, a Dansville father who was wrongfully detained by the Taliban for nearly 900 days, has been reunited with his family on American soil.