Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“An American citizen, who was held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for two months, has been released, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul has said. 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. The couple ran training programmes for women and girls, and stayed when the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021. Afghan officials have not made the reason for their arrest public. In his announcement, Mr Khalilzad thanked Qatar, which acts as a mediator between the US and Afghanistan. The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.” (03/30/25)