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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 deal came before Joe Biden, who oversaw the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, handed power over to returning President Donald Trump. The Taliban praised the swap as a step ...

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 ...

(CNN) — In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House is celebrating the release of two Americans freed in a swap with the Taliban brokered by President Joe Biden’s administration. “We celebrate the ...

Pundits and columnists pointed to Biden's pardon of his son as another reason he wouldn't be remembered well. The president announced that he would be pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, in early ...

In 2020, Trump had boxed his successor in by adopting the Doha Accord with the Taliban, setting a timeline ... felons from the Oval Office. Biden and his son Hunter Biden walk in downtown ...

He also said he wouldn’t pardon his embattled son, Hunter Biden, who has been under numerous ... As soon as American troops began to leave the nation, the Taliban took over.

Their sons, Beau and Hunter, were also injured ... an agreement executed by Biden, though made between former President Donald Trump and the Taliban. In the process of ending the decades long ...