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Taliban free two Americans in ‘goodwill gesture’: US
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WASHINGTON, 21 December 2022, (TON): The Taliban have freed two Americans in detention in Afghanistan, the State Department said, on the same day that the militant regime faced condemnation for banning women at universities.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters “this, we understand, to have been a goodwill gesture on the part of the Taliban. This was not part of any swap of prisoners or detainees. There was no money that exchanged hands.”
Price said that confidentiality rules forbade him from offering more details on the two Americans.
The release came on the same day that the Taliban banned women from universities, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, which warned it would impose costs on the Islamist militants.
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