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An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released
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An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released
Family members and U.S. officials say an American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released.
The contractor and U.S. Navy veteran was released by the Taliban in exchange for a notorious drug lord who had spent 17 years in U.S. captivity.
Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020 and was believed to have been held since then by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.
An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, as a Taliban drug lord jailed by the United States was also freed and returned to Kabul.