The deal may bolster pragmatists within the Taliban leadership who have frequently clashed with the group’s top ideologues over the new government’s willingness to moderate on key policy issues - like allowing girls’ education - in order to meaningfully engage with the international community, analysts say. It was the first known prisoner exchange between the United States and the Taliban since the group seized power in Afghanistan last year. Noorzai’s return to Afghanistan would not increase risks to Americans or change the Afghan drug trade, they said. They said that months of intense negotiations with the Taliban had made it clear that clemency and release for Mr. Our reporter and photographer witnessed it. Inside the Fall of Kabul: In the summer of 2021, the Taliban took the Afghan capital with a speed that shocked the world.The Afghan women’s national soccer team is still feeling the effect of the ban, even from the safety of Australia. A Team in Exile : The Taliban have barred girls and women from playing sports.A Devastating Decision: Since the Taliban administration banned women from aid work, many groups have suspended their operations in Afghanistan, depriving the population of critical resources and support.A photographer captured the jarring changes. Under Taliban Law: The Taliban’s extremist rule has turned life upside down for Afghans, especially women.Noorzai was convicted in the United States in 2008 of being part of an international narcotics trafficking conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison. Noorzai, a prominent financier of the Taliban in the 1990s who is known for his close ties to the group’s founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar. In return, the United States released Mr. authorities at Kabul International Airport on Monday morning. Frerichs, who had been held by the Taliban since 2020, had been handed over to the U.S. The release of the tribal leader, Haji Bashir Noorzai, who has close ties to the Taliban, was hailed by supporters of the group as a major symbolic victory and a public sign of the Taliban’s enduring loyalty to its supporters.ĭuring a news conference in Kabul, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that Mr.
Frerichs, in exchange for the release by the United States of a prominent Afghan tribal leader who had been convicted of drug trafficking.
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban government of Afghanistan on Monday said that it had freed an American engineer, Mark R.
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