Taliban Releases American and Australian Professors in Prisoner Swap

Taliban Releases American and Australian Professors in Prisoner Swap
Australian Timothy Weeks (L) and U.S. citizen Kevin King in a still image from a 2017 video released by the Taliban. Taliban
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Two professors who were kidnapped in 2016 were released by the Taliban terrorist group on Nov. 18 after the Afghan government freed three militant commanders.

Kevin King, an American citizen, and Timothy Weeks, an Australian citizen, were held for more than three years before being released. They were abducted in August 2016 while leaving the campus of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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