Afghan president: 3 Taliban to be released for held US, Australian

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Afghan president: 3 Taliban to be released for held US, Australian
By Danielle Wallace | Fox News

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced on Tuesday that his government would release three Taliban figures in an effort to have the insurgents free an American and Australian abducted in 2016 and held captive for three years.

Ghani said at a press event broadcast live on state television that three members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network -- Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid -- would be released "conditionally in exchange" for an American identified as Kevin King and an Australian man identified as Timothy Weekes — who were both abducted at gunpoint outside the American University in Kabul where they worked as teachers, according to the Associated Press.

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