{"id":69051,"date":"2025-01-22T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/us-afghanistan-prisoner-swap"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:10:40","slug":"two-americans-freed-from-afghanistan-in-prisoner-swap-for-taliban-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69051","title":{"rendered":"Two Americans freed from Afghanistan in prisoner swap for Taliban figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Corbett and William McKenty swapped for Khan Mohammed, who was held in California for drug trafficking<\/p>\n<p>A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> on drug-trafficking and terrorism charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban praised the swap as a step toward the \u201cnormalization\u201d of ties between the US and Afghanistan, but that probably remains a tall order as most countries in the world still do not recognize their rule and another two Americans are believed held.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/us-afghanistan-prisoner-swap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Corbett and William McKenty swapped for Khan Mohammed, who was held in California for drug traffickingA prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1084,61,44,3233,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-california","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-crime","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69052,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69051\/revisions\/69052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}