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We can hate the idea that Americans are being taken hostage by foreign governments — a special category of hostage-taking called “wrongful detention” — though this practice is likely to continue until we find the right means of disincentivizing such behavior. But any policy to disincentivize other nations should not be done to the detriment of Americans who are arrested abroad purely for political reasons.

KABUL－A US navy veteran detained in Afghanistan since 2020 was released in exchange for a Taliban associate imprisoned in the United States for drug smuggling, US and Afghan officials announced on Monday.

KABUL－A US navy veteran detained in Afghanistan since 2020 was released in exchange for a Taliban associate imprisoned in the United States for drug smuggling, US and Afghan officials announced on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban dru

The exchange is one of the most significant prisoner swaps to take place under the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON -- An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, according to the mans family and U.S. officials.

Charlene Cakora devoted "every day" of the last 31 months to setting her brother free. Her anguish has turned into a wave of relief. American hostage Mark Frerichs, a Lombard native and civil engineering contractor who was abducted in Afghanistan in January 2020, was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord who had been held in U.S. federal prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, the White Hous...

An American contractor, Mark Frerichs, has been freed after talks between the United States and the Taliban. He was abducted in January of 2020 in Kabul

Mark Frerichs was freed in exchange for Bashir Noorzai in a rare success in U.S.-Taliban talks.