U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
The Taliban said they had been in talks with the Biden administration to exchange Afghans in U.S. custody for Americans ...
US in negotiations with Taliban to swap Americans in Afghanistan for prisoner in Guantanamo
The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan ...
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Al-Qaeda still 'heavily embedded' within Taliban in Afghanistan, UN official warns
"The Taliban were talking regularly and at a ... has significantly diminished over the past decade, but its leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is believed to still be based in Afghanistan along with a ...
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The Country Club Radical
In our own times, Ayman al-Zawahiri—second general emir of al-Qaeda and a physician—was typical of the breed, with other representatives including George Habash of the Popular Front for the ...
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Asim Umar: Al-Qaeda's South Asia chief 'killed in Afghanistan'
But the Taliban denied the news ... Abu Raihan, said to be Umar's "courier" to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, was named as one of those killed. The NDS shared pictures purportedly showing ...