The U.S. State Department on Monday (March 9, 2026) designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations separately called out the country for engaging in what he said was “hostage diplomacy.”
With the designation, Afghanistan joins Iran as countries singled out by the U.S. in the past two weeks for their practice of detaining Americans in hopes of extracting policy concessions.
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