Taliban release American engineer Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap
by Reuters in Kabul from US news | The Guardian on (#63SP2)
Navy veteran exchanged for Bashir Noorzai, who had been held in US since 2005 on drugs charges
The Taliban have freed an American engineer in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the group whom the US had held on drugs charges since 2005.
Mark Frerichs was exchanged at Kabul airport for Bashir Noorzai, the acting Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, told a news conference in the Afghan capital.
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