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Taliban releases American. An American man who was abducted more than two years ago was released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration that Qatari negotiators helped broker, the State Department said on March 20. George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, was seized in December 2022 while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist. The release of Mr. Glezmann, the third American to be let go since January, is part of what the Taliban has previously described as the “normalization” of ties between the United States and Afghanistan following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

People Making a Difference: Human rights attorney Jared Genser specializes in “extracting” people from unjust imprisonment in far corners of the world, from China and Venezuela to Iran and Myanmar.