Faye Hall will "soon be heading home" after she was arrested by the Taliban in February, Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the US special representative for Afghanistan from 2018-2021, wrote on X. Ms Hall, who is now in the care of Qatari officials, was detained alongside a British couple in their seventies - Barbie and Peter Reynolds - and their interpreter. At the time, the government said the airline mechanic was released on "humanitarian grounds," and that the decision was a "goodwill gesture". Those were the highest-level direct talks between the two countries since President Trump's inauguration, though the new American administration's policy plans for the Taliban and Afghanistan remain unclear.
Published at: 2025-03-29 19:47:57
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