{"id":92750,"date":"2019-11-19T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92750"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:49:42","slug":"taliban-free-american-australian-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92750","title":{"rendered":"Taliban free American, Australian hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Taliban on Tuesday freed two Western hostages who were held for more than three years in what has been seen as a hopeful sign in the Afghan peace talks.<\/p>\n

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\nAn American professor and Australian professor have been released by the Taliban after being held for more than three years in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n

The hostages, who were both teachers at the American University in Kabul and held since 2016, were identified as American Kevin C. King, 63, and Australian Timothy J Weeks, 50, The New York Times reported. They were released to American forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Teaching at the American University? I’ll just leave this here.<\/p>\n

In exchange, the younger brother of the group\u2019s military operations leader and a top fund-raiser and propagandist prior to his capture in 2014 was released, the report said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sweetening the pot for more peace talks, no doubt. It may even work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taliban on Tuesday freed two Western hostages who were held for more than three years in what has been seen as a hopeful sign in the Afghan peace talks. An American professor and Australian professor have been released by the Taliban after being held for more than three years in Afghanistan. The hostages, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,9,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-taliban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-o7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}