{"id":70259,"date":"2025-03-21T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/george-glezmann-taliban-released-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:21:38","slug":"us-man-released-after-being-held-by-taliban-for-more-than-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70259","title":{"rendered":"US man released after being held by Taliban for more than two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Glezmann was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/20\/donald-trump-executive-order-department-of-education-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> as a tourist has been released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a> in a deal brokered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, and Qatari negotiators.<\/p>\n<p>George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January. He was seized by the Taliban\u2019s intelligence services in December 2022 and was designated by the US government as wrongfully detained the following year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/george-glezmann-taliban-released-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Glezmann was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a touristUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesA US man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"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":[46,415,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-donald-trump","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70259","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70259\/revisions\/70301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}