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Afghanistan's Taliban government freed a US citizen who had been held in an Afghan prison for nine months on Sunda , after reaching an agreement with US envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalise relations.
The Taliban Foreign Ministry's Deputy Spokesperson Zia Ahmad Takal identified the man as Amir Amiri.
An official with knowledge of the release said Amiri had been detained in Afghanistan since December last year, and added that he was on his way back to the
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