Taliban releases American citizen Dennis Coyle more than a year after being detained
Afghanistan's Taliban government on Tuesday announced that it released a U.S. national who had been detained in the country for more than a year.
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Afghanistan's Taliban government on Tuesday announced that it released a U.S. national who had been detained in the country for more than a year.
The foreign ministry said in a statement it agreed after a letter from his family that Dennis Coyle "would be pardoned and released" for Eid.
Ryan Corbett, from western New York, was one of two Americans freed in a prisoner swap between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan, officials say.
Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release of 2 Americans in a prisoner exchange. Ryan Corbett's family says he's one of them.
The victim and her family were ambushed by the Taliban a decade ago.
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In a classroom at the Hun School of Princeton, Dr. Seth Holm teaches virtual classes.
The mosque was full when the Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber struck, and many of those inside were officers based in Peshawar's fortified "Police Lines" zone.
Tuesday's order completed all the restrictions the Taliban imposed on Afghan women in the 1990s.
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CBS2 recently spoke with them about what they went through that day, and got exclusive access inside a military plane just like the one from the refugee rescue.
The United Nations held an emergency financial appeal meeting in Geneva on Monday to raise funds for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said.
A fresh challenge to Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers triggered a heavy-handed response on Tuesday.
As the Taliban take control of Afghanistan, there are growing concerns about women and girls in the country.
Troops are helping stock the base with supplies, and the federal government will connect the refugees with resettlement organizations.
President Biden told world leaders Tuesday the U.S. is "on pace" to meet his August 31 deadline to pull the remaining American forces from Afghanistan.
In a letter to the White House, Murphy said he believes the refugees could make enormous contributions to the state.
President Biden took questions from reporters Friday for the first time since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, pledging that the U.S. will get any American home who wants to come home.
As unrest grows in Afghanistan, the world is getting a better idea of what some local families are going through during this chaotic time.
A protest against the Taliban takeover in eastern Afghanistan ended Thursday morning with a report of several people killed after the militants opened fire, sparking a stampede.
The Taliban were still tightening their grip on Afghanistan's capital city on Wednesday, with the militants controlling access to Kabul's airport.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller spoke with CBS This Morning about the concern over "lone wolf" inspired attacks.
Taliban leaders announced a nationwide "amnesty" for all Afghans, including former government officials, and have called for women to join the new government.
Addressing the nation for the first time since the Taliban took the capital on Sunday, Biden did little to address pressing questions about why the U.S. failed to anticipate the rapid pace of the takeover.
