The Taliban official said that the American envoy accepts the exchange of prisoners at the Kabul meeting | New Taliban

The visit reported in March 2025 which led to the release of an American citizen detained for more than two years in Afghanistan.

The United States officials accepted an exchange of prisoners after a rare conference with the Kabul authorities, according to the Taliban Administration Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Adam Boehler, the Trump administration special for the response in hostage, and Zalmay Khalilzad, a former American special envoy to Afghanistan, met the Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

“Adam Boehler, referring to the question of citizens detained between Afghanistan and the United States, said that the two countries would exchange prisoners,” said Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar after their meeting.

There was no immediate declaration from Washington concerning the meeting, and Khalilzad did not immediately answer a telephone call from Reuters when he was asked for comments.

Mahmood Habibi, a naturalized American citizen and a businessman who previously worked for a telecommunications company in Kabul, is the best profiled inmate, according to Washington. The United States offers a 5 million dollars award to find it, the Taliban authorities denying any involvement in its disappearance in 2022.

The Taliban would have been pressure for the release of Muhammad Rahim, the last Afghan national held in Guantanamo Bay, who has been detained without instill since 2008.

Another American, the mechanic of airlines George Glezmann, was released after more than two years of detention during a visit in March in Kabul by Boehler.

This agreement, mediated by Qatar, was described by the Taliban as a “humanitarian” gesture and a “sign of good will”.

Before that, in January 2025, the two parties carried out an exchange of prisoners in which American citizens Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty were released in exchange for Khan Mohammad, an Afghan national serving two perpetuity sentences in the United States.

The two parties also agreed to continue discussions concerning nationals imprisoned in countries with each other, added the press release.

The Taliban administration, which took power in 2021 after 20 years of US military intervention in Afghanistan, is not recognized by Washington.