The family thanked both the Biden and Trump administrations for "countless hours of negotiations, unwavering support, and determination."

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.

The Trump White House is celebrating the release of two Americans freed in a swap with the Taliban brokered by President Joe Biden's administration. “We celebrate the release of Ryan Corbett and William McKenty who will soon reunited with their families and loved ones,

Two Americans have been freed in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s Taliban in exchange for a Taliban figure, officials said Tuesday.

The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the US troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said, as relations between Kabul and the Donald Trump administration start on a wobbly note.

The family of Ryan Corbett of New York confirmed his release, while the Taliban said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan serving a life sentence in California, was freed.

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The United States and Afghanistan have carried out a prisoner swap, the Taliban announced early Tuesday. Scarce details released on the exchange state that an Afghan national held in the United States was exchanged for at least one detained American, Ryan Corbett.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

The last-minute deal was the final capstone in Biden’s campaign to release dozens of Americans detained abroad.

After more than two years of being detained by the Taliban, Western New Yorker Ryan Corbett is finally coming home after being freed. Corbett will soon be reunited

Ryan Corbett, from western New York, was one of two Americans freed in a prisoner swap between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan, officials say.