{"id":38989,"date":"2026-03-25T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=38989"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:41:59","slug":"taliban-to-release-u-s-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/38989\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban to Release U.S. Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the group\u2019s Supreme Court has decided to release Dennis Coyle, a U.S. citizen, from detention.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the ministry\u2019s statement issued a few minutes ago, Amir Khan Muttaqi met with a member of Coyle\u2019s family, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the United Arab Emirates ambassador in Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement said that after Coyle\u2019s family sent a letter to Hibatullah requesting his release on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Taliban Supreme Court deemed his detention period sufficient and decided to free him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister, said that the Taliban have not detained any foreign citizens for political purposes; rather, they were held due to \u201cviolations of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasized that countries must ensure the provision of standard consular services to their citizens [in Afghanistan] and that the Taliban are ready to cooperate in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muttaqi thanked the United Arab Emirates for its \u201cconstructive role in facilitating\u201d Coyle\u2019s release, calling the UAE one of Afghanistan\u2019s close friends. He also acknowledged Qatar\u2019s role in past information exchanges between the Taliban and the detainee\u2019s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khalilzad considered the decision to release Dennis Coyle commendable and described the continuation of talks between the Taliban and the United States on \u201call matters\u201d as important. He also expressed hope for further progress in bilateral relations in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to U.S. officials, Dennis Coyle is one of three American citizens currently held in Taliban custody. He had been in Taliban detention for just over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the group\u2019s Supreme Court has decided to release Dennis Coyle, a U.S. citizen, from detention. According to the ministry\u2019s statement issued a few minutes ago, Amir Khan Muttaqi met with a member of Coyle\u2019s family, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the United Arab Emirates ambassador in Kabul. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7597,7598,7599,7592,7595,7552,7600,1238,2335,5719,5706,5742],"class_list":["post-38989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-coyle","tag-khalilzad","tag-muttaqi-2","tag-talibanregime","tag-talibansupremecourt","tag-us","tag-uscitizens","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-kabul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39023,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989\/revisions\/39023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}