{"id":70568,"date":"2025-03-30T03:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/us-citizen-released-taliban-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:48:07","slug":"us-citizen-detained-in-afghanistan-by-taliban-released-to-qatari-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70568","title":{"rendered":"US citizen detained in Afghanistan by Taliban released to Qatari embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faye Hall had been detained since February along with a British couple before a court order led to her release<\/p>\n<p>A US citizen detained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> in February by the Taliban administration has been released, the former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican citizen Faye Hall, just released by the Taliban, is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul, and will soon be on her way home,\u201d Khalilzad <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realZalmayMK\/status\/1906021314013347843\">posted<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/us-citizen-released-taliban-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faye Hall had been detained since February along with a British couple before a court order led to her releaseA US citizen detained in Afghanistan in February by the Taliban administration has been released, the former US ambassador to Afghanistan and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[46,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/70568","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70569,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70568\/revisions\/70569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}