Taliban frees US woman detained in Kabul, she thanks Trump

An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to social media posts Saturday by a former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, just days after the United States removed multimillion-dollar bounties from the heads of three senior Taliban officials.

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Faye Hall, released from Taliban custody, was pictured sitting on a couch between two men and smiling in a social media post on X by Zalmay Khalilzad, the former ambassador. “Mr Khalilzad said that Ms Hall is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul, and will soon be on her way home.”

He also shared what he said was a video of Ms Hall professing support for President Donald Trump and thanking the president for her release.

Mr Trump reposted the video Saturday on his social media site, Truth Social, thanking Hall and adding she was “so honored” by her words.