Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025.

The State Department has designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention as the U_S_ ambassador to the United Nations separately called out the country for engaging in what he said was “hostage diplomacy.”.

The Taliban have freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison.

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban.

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.

President Joe Biden has spoken with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but no agreement has been reached on a deal to get them back.