Qatar Extends Taliban Five's Travel Restrictions

Qatar has agreed to temporarily extend travel and monitoring restrictions on five senior Taliban leaders who were released last year from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for a captured American soldier, a senior U.S. official says. At the same time, the United States acknowledged several Americans are being held by Houthi rebels in Yemen. The U.S. official said the restrictions on the five Taliban leaders will remain in effect until a diplomatic solution to...

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