{"id":39055,"date":"2026-03-28T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39055"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:27:53","slug":"us-official-dennis-coyle-freed-after-months-of-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39055\/","title":{"rendered":"US Official: Dennis Coyle Freed After Months of Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Adam Boehler, the US president\u2019s special envoy for hostage affairs, said Dennis Coyle, a US citizen, was freed from Taliban custody following months of quiet diplomacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made the remarks in a video posted on X showing the moment Coyle stepped off an airplane that had transported him to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boehler wrote: \u201cGetting to witness this homecoming after everything Dennis Coyle endured is why we do this job\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Coyle, who had worked in Afghanistan for years, was detained by the Taliban in early 2025 and held for over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was released from Taliban custody on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview after his release, he said that the people of Afghanistan are \u201cnot all evil\u201d and that many are simply trying to get by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States believes that at least two other American citizens remain detained in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Boehler, the US president\u2019s special envoy for hostage affairs, said Dennis Coyle, a US citizen, was freed from Taliban custody following months of quiet diplomacy. He made the remarks in a video posted on X showing the moment Coyle stepped off an airplane that had transported him to the United States. Boehler wrote: \u201cGetting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7670,7597,7628,7566,7552,7671,1238,2335,5719,5706,5742,1482],"class_list":["post-39055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-boehler","tag-coyle","tag-detention-2","tag-taliban-2","tag-us","tag-x-2","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-kabul","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055","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=39055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39057,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions\/39057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}