The Taliban official says that the US envoy agrees to swap prisoners at the Kabul meeting Taliban News

The report is followed by one in March 2025, which led to the release of an American citizen for more than two years in Afghanistan.

US officials agreed to exchange prisoners after a rare conversation with the authorities in Kabul, according to the Taliban Foreign Ministry.

Adam Bouhler, the Trump administration’s special envoy for the hostage response, and Zialay Khalilzad, the former American special envoy for Afghanistan, met with the Taliban Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Mouetheh.

“Adam Boeller said, referring to the issue of the citizens detained between Afghanistan and the United States, that both countries will exchange prisoners,” said after their meeting.

There was no immediate statement from Washington regarding the meeting, and Khalilzad did not immediately respond to a Reuters phone call when he asked her to comment.

Mahmoud Habibi, an American citizen and businessmen, has previously worked for a telecommunications company in Kabul, the highest American detainee, according to Washington. The United States provides a reward of $ 5 million to information to find it, as the Taliban authorities deny any involvement in its disappearance for the year 2022.

According to what was reported, the Taliban pressed the release of Mohamed Rahim, the last Afghan citizen in the Gulf of Guantanamo, who has been detained without charges since 2008.

Another American was released, airline mechanics, George Galzmann, more than two years later in detention during a visit to Kabul by Bouhler.

The Taliban described that this deal, which is in Qatar, is a “human” gesture and “a sign of goodwill”.

Before that, in January 2025, the two sides made an exchange of prisoners, in which American citizens were released, Ryan Corbett, William Wallace McCaini, in front of Khan Muhammad, an Afghan citizen spending two lifelong sentences in the United States.

The statement added that both sides also agreed to continue the discussions related to the citizens who were imprisoned in each other’s countries.

The Taliban administration, which took power in 2021, was not recognized 20 years after US military intervention in Afghanistan, by Washington.