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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.
The exchange is one of the most significant prisoner swaps to take place under the Biden administration.
US sanctions Iranians in 'probable' death of retired FBI agent Bob Levinson ABCNews The United States on Monday officially fingered Iran for the first time for the kidnapping, captivity and what it called the "probable death" of retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson 13 years ago, naming and shaming a pair of accused top Iranian intelligence officers. Senior U.S. government officials said the two Iranians -- whose whereabouts are not known -- were responsible for Levinson's sad end. But they did not disclose whether U.S. intelligence or the FBI have ascertained the reasons for his mysterious...