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Taliban releases detained U.S. citizen Dennis Coyle

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Afghanistan's Taliban government on Tuesday announced that it released a U.S. national who had been detained since January 2025.The foreign ministry said in a statement it agreed to the release after a letter from his family, and that Dennis Coyle "would be pardoned and released" for Eid, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. The U.S. State Department later confirmed Coyle's release.A Taliban senior official involved in prisoner negotiations told CBS News that the Taliban and U.S. have been holding talks since the last week of February.Coyle, a 64-year-old academic from Colorado, was taken by force from his Kabul apartment by the Taliban.…

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