The Taliban and the United States have completed a prisoner swap, Afghanistan’s foreign minister says, with an American navy veteran traded for a key associate of the Afghan rulers.Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday said Mark Frerichs – kidnapped in 2020 – was exchanged for Bashar Noorzai, a strongman and Taliban ally imprisoned for 17 years in a US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay for heroin smuggling.“Today, Mark Frerichs was handed over to the US and Haji Bashar was handed over to us at Kabul airport,” Muttaqi told reporters in Kabul. He said the exchange happened “after long negotiations”, adding that Frerichs was given to a US delegation.
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