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The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
The next month, Newsweek reported that officials had confirmed that Frerichs had been taken captive by the Haqqani network, an Afghan group closely affiliated with the Taliban. [1] In May 2020, the FBI offered a $1 million reward for information that helps lead to Frerichs's release or rescue. [ 3 ]
The composition of the Afghan government negotiating team was not determined, because the results of the 2019 Afghan presidential election were disputed. [13] The deal required the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners by the start of the talks, in a prisoner exchange for 1,000 government soldiers held by the Taliban.
In 2013, the firm re-branded as Afghanistan Holding Group as it expanded into auditing, research, training and legal services. Kakar was featured in 2019 on the cover of Afghanistan's business magazine, Business DNA.
Dates Supreme Leader: Hibatullah Akhundzada: 15 August 2021 – present (Acting Prime Minister: Hasan Akhund: 7 September 2021 – present (Chief Justice: Abdul Hakim Haqqani: 15 August 2021 – present
With Afghanistan on the brink of falling under total control of the Taliban, here is a history of Britain’s involvement in the 20-year conflict.
The Taliban Five were five Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay and former high-ranking members of the Taliban government of Afghanistan who, after being held since 2002, indefinitely without charges, were exchanged in 2014 for United States Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. [1] [2]
After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, the Biden administration froze the funds in New York, because it was unclear who had the legal authority to access the account. [3]On 11 February 2022, President Joe Biden announced that he intended to move $3.5 billion from the account to a trust fund to support humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, and reserve $3.5 billion for potential legal claims ...