Taliban publications detain US citizen Fay Hall

An American citizen, who has been held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for two months, has been released, said the former Washington envoy in Kabul.

Fay Hall will “soon go home” after being arrested by the Taliban in February Zalmay Halil Zad, who was the US Special Representative for Afghanistan from 2018-2021, writes X.

D -Ja Hall, who is now taking care of the Qatari officials, was detained with a British couple of their seventies – Barbie and Peter Reynolds – and their translator.

The couple runs training programs for women and girls and stayed when the Taliban attracted control of Afghanistan in 2021. Afghan officials did not make the reason for their arrest.

In his announcement, Halil Zales thanked Qatar, who acts as a mediator between the US and Afghanistan.

The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

D -Ja Hall is the fourth US citizen, freed from the Taliban since January after Qatar mediated an agreement with them. Only days earlier they released another American, George Glezman, which has been held for two yearsS

At that time, the government stated that the airline mechanic was released to “humanitarian reasons” and that the decision was a “gesture of goodwill”.

These decisions also come after US officials hosted the Afghan capital Kabul.

These were the highest level direct conversations between the two countries after President Trump’s inauguration, although plans to policy of the new US Taliban and Afghanistan remain unclear.

When he was last in power, Trump negotiated the end of the US war in Afghanistan, agreeing to a 14-month deadline to withdraw US troops and allied forces.

The agreement was criticized as it left the west -backed and democratically elected Afghan government, which was quickly overthrown by the Taliban forces during the US catastrophic withdrawal in 2021.

Trump blamed his predecessor Joe Biden for the chaotic output that included a Bombings at Kabul AirportS The attack killed at least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

Barbie and Peter Reynolds remain in detention. The couple met in England, married in Kabul in 1970 and has been conducting educational programs in the region for years.

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Reynolds were among the few Westerners who decided to stay.

Their daughter Sarah Entwistle told The Sunday Times: “They said they could not leave when the Afghan were in the right of need.”

She said her parents were “attentive to complying with the rules, even when they continue to change.”

D -Ja Hall was arrested while traveling with the couple to their home in Central Bamayan province.

Mrs. Entwistle said her 79-year-old father suffered severe medical problems while in prison, including breast infection, eye infections and digestive problems. She claims that he was also beaten by detention.

“Our desperate appeal to the Taliban is that they are released into their home, where they have the medicines they need to survive,” she told the Sunday Times.