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Afghan Taliban agrees to release US detainee Dennis Coyle
"The foreign minister said that after a letter from the detainee's family ... the Supreme Court ... deemed the period of his detention sufficient and decided to release him," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The American researcher Dennis Walter Coyle, center, is escorted to a waiting plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. (Credit: The New York Times)
The Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday it has decided to release U.S. detainee Dennis Coyle in response to a request from his mother.
“The foreign minister said that after a letter from the detainee’s family … the Supreme Court … deemed the period of his detention sufficient and decided to release him,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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