{"id":74496,"date":"2025-09-29T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/us-citizen-amir-amiry-freed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:45:26","slug":"us-citizen-amir-amiry-freed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74496","title":{"rendered":"US citizen Amir Amiry freed by Taliban in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state Marco Rubio welcomes release as \u2018important step forward\u2019 as Taliban seek to normalise relations with US<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban on Sunday freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with US envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalise relations.<\/p>\n<p>US secretary of state Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/09\/welcoming-the-release-of-amir-amiry-in-afghanistan\/\">welcomed<\/a> the release of Amir Amiry, saying it marked the administration\u2019s determination, reinforced by Donald Trump\u2019s recent executive order, to protect American nationals from wrongful detention abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/us-citizen-amir-amiry-freed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state Marco Rubio welcomes release as \u2018important step forward\u2019 as Taliban seek to normalise relations with USThe Taliban on Sunday freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with US envoys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,44,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496\/revisions\/74497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}