The Latest Breaking News from Mark Frerichs

Kabul (AFP) - An American navy veteran detained in Afghanistan since 2020 was released by the Taliban on Monday in exchange for an ally who had spent 17 years in a US jail for heroin smuggling, Afghanistan's foreign minister said.

A senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo Bay says he was released and handed over to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Taliban freed on Monday American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the Taliban who the United States had held on drugs charges since 2005, the group's acting foreign minister said. Frerichs was exchanged at the airport in the capital, Kabul, with Bashir Noorzai,…

Afghanistan's Taliban on Monday freed American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for Taliban-linked Afghan tribal leader Bashir Noorzai, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to the convicted drug smuggler who had been detained by the United States since 2005, officials said.

Several families of U.S. hostages and wrongful detainees will rally at the White House on Wednesday.

Conor Lamb says John Fetterman’s afraid to debate, calling shotgun incident ‘a huge problem’

An American man kidnapped by the Taliban in early 2020 was seen alive for the first time since then on Friday in a hostage video.

‘This is public confirmation of our family’s long-held belief that he is alive after more than two years in captivity,’ sister says

Safi Rauf and his brother were held in Afghanistan for 105 days.

President Joe Biden is calling for the release of U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago

Frerich’s younger sister Charlene Cakora, who lives in Lombard, has been waging a campaign for her brother’s freedom, fearing he will be forgotten.