CBS News correspondent Holly Williams said the prisoner swap was aimed at trying to restart U.S.-Taliban peace talks to end Afghanistan's 18-year war. Those talks broke down earlier this year.

The Taliban will release an American and an Australian hostage, held for over three years, in a prisoner swap with the Afghan government, according to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

The Taliban freed the last U.S. prisoner being held hostage in Afghanistan on Monday as part of a prisoner swap with the U.S. government. Mark Frerichs, a U.S. Navy veteran and engineer, was first ...

WASHINGTON — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, as a Taliban drug lord jailed by the United ...

US, Taliban and Qatar involved in the swap Corbett, who had lived in Afghanistan with his family when the U.S.-backed government collapsed in 2021, was detained by the Taliban in August 2022 on a ...

U.S., Taliban and Qatar all involved in the swap Corbett, who had lived in Afghanistan with his family at the time of the 2021 collapse of the U.S.-backed government, was detained by the Taliban ...

Afghan Taliban to seek prisoner swap as U.S. attempts to broker peace talks “If they are sincere in talks in the future, they would accept our proposal for a prisoners’ exchange.” ...

Taliban prisoner swap makes sense Anand Gopal. 5 minute read Updated 4:01 PM EDT, Thu June 5, 2014 Link ... Gopal: Prisoner swap could be a step toward a negotiated settlement .

KABUL — The Taliban halted prisoner swap negotiations with the Afghan government Tuesday after accusing leaders in Kabul of refusing to comply with a key part of the U.S. peace deal — a ...

WASHINGTON — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, as a Taliban drug lord jailed by the United ...

ISLAMABAD, — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and ...

ISLAMABAD, — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and ...