Under duress, Saidi confessed to the charges and was sentenced to three years in prison. He was immediately transferred to Pol-e-Charkhi prison, where his health continues to deteriorate. The ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: ...

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said David Lavery, who is known in Kabul as Canadian Dave, has arrived in Qatar after being freed from a prison in Afghanistan. Canadian Prime Minister ...

Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.

In one of its final acts, the Biden administration secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in a prisoner ...

Taliban government in Afghanistan says two US nationals released in exchange for Afghan serving life sentence in US.

the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison. But there was an unexpected delay (at least in part due to bad ...

The family thanked both the Biden and Trump administrations for "countless hours of negotiations, unwavering support, and determination." ...

Mohammad was sentenced to life in prison in 2008, two years after his arrest near Jalalabad, Nangahar Province, Afghanistan, according to a 2008 release from the Department of Justice. He had been ...

Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap, according to his family. The Talibans foreign ministry confirmed the swap in their ...

The Taliban government said Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in ...