Taliban confirms it is holding Americans, ex-intel officer calls detainee Coyle ‘valuable asset’

Jan 29, 2026 11:30 am | Jpost

A Taliban security personnel stands guard along a road near the Ghulam Khan zero-point border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Gurbuz district in the southeast of Khost province on October 20, 2025. (photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Americans are being held in near-solitary confinement by a Taliban counterintelligence unit whose personnel include former detainees from Guantanamo Bay and the US-run Bagram prison.
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