The Taliban kidnapped American Kevin King in 2016, along with Timothy Weeks, an Australian national, outside the American University of Afghanistan.
Two professors from the American University of Afghanistan, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, were released from Taliban captivity Tuesday as part of a prisoner exchange with the militant group previously announced by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien made separate calls to Ghani on Monday to discuss the prisoners' release, Ghani’s spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. The canceled peace talks were to be held with the Taliban and the Afghan president at the U.S. president's country retreat at Camp David. The talks, complicated by the Taliban and Afghan government's unruly relationship, were aimed at securing a peace deal to end nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan, a conflict that has killed at least 2,400 U.S. soldiers, according to the Pentagon.
A U.S. military judge sentenced Bergdahl in 2017 to a dishonorable discharge and a reduction in rank but no time behind bars. Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, and his case drew an especially strong reaction from Trump, who branded Bergdahl a"dirty rotten traitor."
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