{"id":421845,"date":"2025-09-13T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:29:19","slug":"taliban-claim-agreement-reached-with-us-envoys-on-a-prisoner-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421845\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim agreement reached with US envoys on a prisoner swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; The Taliban said Saturday they reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They gave no details of a detainee swap and the White House did not comment on the meeting in Kabul or the results described in a Taliban statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Taliban released photographs from their talks, showing their foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, with President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for hostage response, Adam Boehler, and another U.S. envoy, Adam Boehler, in a room with others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On the issue of prisoners, Boehler \u201cconfirmed that the two sides would undertake an exchange of detainees,\u201d the Taliban statement said. No information was provided on how many people are being held in each country, who they are or why they were imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The meeting came after the Taliban, in March, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-hostage-taliban-trump-e6a4d42edc25f290552a5e2ad21f8889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released U.S. citizen George Glezmann<\/a>, who was abducted while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist. He was the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-american-detainee-prisoner-exchange-e201170029067fbd8c9ef5861af0930e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third detainee freed<\/a> by the Taliban since Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The talks also came after the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-amnesty-eid-aladha-cada96ecfb33699207ffe93a6ffd8691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taliban sharply criticized<\/a> Trump\u2019s new travel ban that bars Afghans from entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cComprehensive discussions were held on ways to develop bilateral relations between the two countries, issues related to citizens, and investment opportunities in Afghanistan,\u201d the Taliban said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The statement added that the U.S. delegation also expressed condolences over the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-earthquake-jalalabad-52d1948cde125c9ca8a01ebda08e7919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">devastating earthquake<\/a> in eastern Afghanistan late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; The Taliban said Saturday they reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[144220,135759,3907,4179,33041,8614,285,19746,49,978,659,10673,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-421845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-144220","9":"tag-afghanistan-earthquake","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-hostage-situations","13":"tag-international-agreements","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-prisoner-exchange","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-washington-news","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115198647704292905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}