In a roughly 30-minute phone call Sunday afternoon, President Biden delivered difficult news to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban. He did not have a deal with the Taliban to free ...

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The Taliban has released two American citizens in a prisoner exchange negotiated by the outgoing Biden administration, US media reports and the families of the two men said. The two Americans ...

The 11th-hour move — on the heels of Biden’s previous unprecedented sweeping pardon of son Hunter — brought widespread condemnation, even from hardcore liberals. “It’s just unseemly ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- President Joe Biden delivered "devastating" news to the family of Ryan Corbett, a man wrongfully detained by the Taliban, during a recent phone call. Corbett’s wife ...

The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul said the two U.S. citizens had been exchanged for Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two life terms in 2008. Biden, who oversaw the chaotic U.S. withdrawal ...

On the eve of his inauguration, President Trump accused the Biden administration of handing over U.S. military assets to the Taliban following the 2021 withdrawal — a withdrawal that Mr. Trump ...

The report of the special counsel behind the prosecutions against Hunter Biden, David Weiss, was released Monday.

The Taliban has denied that it has Habibi, complicating the talks with the U.S. government. On the call Sunday, Biden told the families that his administration would not trade Rahim, who has been ...