After the meeting between Trump’s envoy and the Taliban, an American citizen was released from Afghanistan
On Thursday, March 21, the Taliban released George Glezman, an American citizen detained in Afghanistan since 2022
Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, announced this news
This release occurred after the meeting of Adam Boehler, Donald Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, and Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, with Taliban officials in Kabul
Glezman, who was from Atlanta and a mechanic for Delta Airlines, was arrested in December 2022 while traveling to Afghanistan as a tourist
The U.S. State Department had previously described his imprisonment as unjust
On Thursday, he flew from Kabul to Doha on a Qatari plane along with Boehler, Khalilzad, and Qatari officials
The U.S. Secretary of State thanked the Qatari government for their assistance in Glezman’s release in a statement