President Biden spoke by phone Sunday with the families of three Americans held by the Taliban, Ryan Corbett, George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi.

Fmr CIA analyst Sarah Adams made the case for US to stop funding Taliban, predicting, "2025 will be a reckoning..."

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

The White House said President Joe Biden spoke to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2022 and promised to do all possible to bring them home as he heads into the final days of his presidency.

The Taliban, who deny holding Habibi ... Rahim was "the last person brought into the CIA torture program," said Connell, referring to an agency program instituted after the Sept.

The Taliban say they are demanding the release of three people, including Muhammad Rahim, the only Afghan national left at Guantánamo Bay.

Early in his tenure, in the summer of 2021, he flew to Kabul to negotiate with the Taliban over the U.S. withdrawal ... Back at headquarters, he reoriented the CIA's priorities and budget to ...

Talks center on release of at least 1 Guantanamo detainee in exchange for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, Wall Street Journal suggests - Anadolu Ajansı

Representatives for the Afghan Taliban also did not immediately respond ... as a high-level al-Qaeda operative who was transferred to Guantanamo in 2008 from CIA custody. The talks have been in motion since July, according to the WSJ, which cited sources ...

Families of American hostages held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have asked Joe Biden “to do the right thing” and bring the men home before he leaves office, after months of lobbying the outgoing president to broker a deal with the hardline Islamist regime.

CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt defended his story on Zachary Young, a security consultant who charged $14,000 or more to evacuate people from Afghanistan.