The US offered a $5 million reward Tuesday for info that helps discover an Afghan-American nationwide it says was kidnapped in Kabul in 2022.
Mahmood Habibi, who labored for a telecommunications agency, was taken alongside together with his driver and detained by the Taliban authorities’s intelligence service, the State Division mentioned.
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He was seized together with 29 different staff of the corporate he labored for, the Reuters information company reported, citing a State Division discover. All however Habibi and one different particular person have since been launched.
“The so-called Taliban authorities has not but supplied any details about Mr. Habibi’s whereabouts or situation,” State Division spokeswoman Tammy Bruce advised reporters.
After Mahmood Habibi disappeared, the Taliban denied taking him.
The U.S. considers him as being unjustly held. However the Taliban repeated to CBS News in January that they did not have Habibi in custody.
The Taliban authorities released two other Americans in January, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, for an Afghan detained in the US in an alternate mediated by Qatar.
Dozens of international nationals have been arrested because the Taliban returned to energy in August 2021 following the U.S. navy’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
