There are about 175 Americans still in Afghanistan, and some of them are being held captive by the Taliban, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress on Thursday.
A senior Taliban detainee held for years at Guantanamo Bay said Monday he was released and handed over earlier in the day to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan.
President Biden marked the one-year anniversary of the suicide bombing at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the country by honoring the 13 U.S. service members killed in the attack.
Freedom to practice one's faith "does not exist in Afghanistan anymore" one year after the return to power of the radical Islamist Taliban, an advocate told the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom during a Wednesday hearing.