US detainee Dennis Coyle released by Taliban after more than a year

Bangla Press Desk:  The Taliban has freed an American citizen after more than a year in captivity, amid pressure from President Donald Trump's administration.

Dennis Walter Coyle, 64, who was living in Afghanistan working as a language researcher, according to his family, was arrested in January 2025.

In a statement posted online, the Taliban-run Afghan foreign ministry said Coyle's imprisonment was deemed "sufficient" and that he had been pardoned to mark Eid al-Fitr, the holiday at the end of Ramadan.

The US government - which declared Afghanistan a "state sponsor of wrongful detention" just weeks ago - welcomed the release, but called for other US citizens being "unjustly" held to be freed, too.Source: BBC

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