In brief
An American citizen, Faye Hall, recently detained in Afghanistan, has now been released by the Taliban. This comes days after the U.S. dropped multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban leaders.
Faye Hall was seen in a video thanking President Trump for her release, which was shared by Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. Hall, who had been detained along with a British couple, has been reported to be in Qatari care and on her way home. The British couple, Peter and Barbie Reynolds, remains in custody, and emotional scenes unfolded as Afghan guards had to separate Hall from them during her release.
