The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it had secured the release of 66-year-old George Glezmann, a U.S. citizen who has been held captive by the Taliban since 2022.
&#8220;Today, after two and a half years of captivity in Afghanistan, Delta Airlines mechanic George Glezmann is on his way to be reunited with his wife, Aleksandra,&#8221; Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
&#8220;George joins American Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, who were released from Afghanistan on the night of President Trump’s inauguration and returned home to their families,&#8221; he continued.
Glezmann was visiting Kabul as a tourist when he was detained by the Taliban on December 5, 2022, and held without cause or being charged, according to the <a href="https://jamesfoleyfoundation.org/hostage/george-glezmann/#gsc.tab=0">Foley Foundation</a>. He was in Afghanistan to fulfill his dream of visiting every country, having already been to &#8220;well over 100,&#8221; the group said.
A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Glezmann has had very limited contact with his family while in captivity, and his health has &#8220;deteriorated significantly while he had been in detention, and he has medical issues that require immediate care.&#8221;
Rubio said that Qatar played an &#8220;instrumental&#8221; role in getting Glezmann released after he was detained by the Taliban nearly a year and a half after former President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
&#8220;George’s release is a positive and constructive step,&#8221; Rubio added. &#8220;It is also a reminder that other Americans are still detained in Afghanistan. President Trump will continue his tireless work to free ALL Americans unjustly detained around the world.&#8221;
Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, who assisted in the effort, said that the Taliban decided to free Glezmann as &#8220;a goodwill gesture&#8221; to President Donald Trump and the American people.
&#8220;@realDonaldTrump has made the freedom and homecoming of Americans held abroad a high priority,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/realZalmayMK/status/1902720314989064667">posted</a> on social media. &#8220;It is an honor to assist in this important effort.&#8221;

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Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> said on Saturday evening that the Trump administration has learned that the Taliban is holding more American citizens hostage.
&#8220;Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,&#8221; Rubio posted on X. &#8220;If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.&#8221;
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Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) <a href="https://twitter.com/secrubio/status/1883296982346944822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Rubio did not release any other details about the hostages who are being held by the Taliban.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/rubio-demands-answers-2-more-americans-reportedly-held-taliban?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the other American hostages being held were U.S. citizens George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi.
The news comes after American hostage Ryan Corbett&#8217;s family announced on Tuesday that he was freed by the Taliban, ending his 894-day captivity in Afghanistan.
Corbett was released just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office and after the Biden administration ramped up its negotiations with the Taliban in the past month. According to the Taliban, Corbett and one other hostage who wasn’t named were exchanged for terrorist Khan Muhammad, who was serving a life sentence in California.
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“Today, our hearts are filled with overwhelming gratitude and praise to God for sustaining Ryan’s life and bringing him back home after what has been the most challenging and uncertain 894 days of our lives,” the Corbett family said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
The family thanked Trump, former President Joe Biden, incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, incoming Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and former Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens for “their tireless work and steadfast dedication to bringing Ryan back to us.”
Muhammed, the terrorist exchanged for Corbett’s release, was convicted and sentenced on drug and narco-terrorism charges. The Department of Justice said that Muhammed “sought to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets” and attempted to send heroin to the U.S.
Corbett and his family first moved to Afghanistan in 2010 and started Bloom Afghanistan, an enterprise focused on improving the war-torn country’s private sector. The Corbett family safely evacuated from Afghanistan when the United States withdrew under Biden’s orders in August 2021, and then Ryan returned around five months later. He was captured by the Taliban a year after the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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American hostage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-for-biden-to-secure-release-of-american-held-hostage-by-taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Corbett</a>&#8216;s family announced on Tuesday that he was freed by the Taliban, ending his 894-day captivity in Afghanistan.
Corbett was released just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office and after the Biden administration ramped up its negotiations with the Taliban in the past month. According to the Taliban, Corbett and one other hostage who wasn&#8217;t named were exchanged for terrorist Khan Muhammad, who was serving a life sentence in California, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-held-afghanistan-released-final-hours-biden-administration-rcna188496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Today, our hearts are filled with overwhelming gratitude and praise to God for sustaining Ryan’s life and bringing him back home after what has been the most challenging and uncertain 894 days of our lives,&#8221; the Corbett family said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
The family thanked Trump, former President Joe Biden, incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, incoming Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and former Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens for &#8220;their tireless work and steadfast dedication to bringing Ryan back to us.&#8221;
Muhammed, the terrorist exchanged for Corbett&#8217;s release, was convicted and sentenced on drug and narco-terrorism charges. The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2008/December/08-crm-1145.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> said that Muhammed &#8220;sought to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets&#8221; and attempted to send heroin to the U.S.
Corbett and his family first moved to Afghanistan in 2010 and started Bloom Afghanistan, an enterprise focused on improving the war-torn country’s private sector. The Corbett family safely evacuated from Afghanistan when the United States withdrew under Biden’s orders in August 2021, and then Ryan returned around five months later. He was captured by the Taliban a year after the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Corbett&#8217;s wife, Anna, worked tirelessly to secure her husband&#8217;s release. She met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, urged the Biden administration to act, and spoke to numerous news outlets, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-for-biden-to-secure-release-of-american-held-hostage-by-taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, to raise awareness of Ryan&#8217;s dire situation. Last week, Anna spoke to &#8220;Morning Wire,&#8221; expressing her hope that her husband would be home soon.
In her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wife-of-american-held-hostage-by-taliban-hopes-for-her-husbands-return-under-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with &#8220;Morning Wire,&#8221; Anna told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley that she recently met with Waltz, Trump&#8217;s National Security Advisor nominee, for &#8220;over an hour,&#8221; which was a sharp contrast to her experience with Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
“I had to beg and work so hard to have a meeting with the current National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, and it took 16 months to meet with him,” Anna said.
As the Corbett family expressed their gratitude for the work of the Trump and Biden teams, they also called for the release of two men still held by the Taliban, American George Glezmann and Afghan journalist Mahmoud Habibi.
&#8220;It was our hope that Ryan, George and Mahmoud would be returned to their families together, and we cannot imagine the pain that our good fortune will bring them,&#8221; the family said. &#8220;We recognize the immense privilege of our family’s reunion today, and pledge to keep praying – and fighting – for George and Mahmoud’s swift release.&#8221;

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The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley and Anna Corbett, whose husband has been held captive in Afghanistan for over two years, on a special <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/held-prisoner-in-afghanistan-a-family-s-fight-for-freedom-1-18-25">Saturday edition of Morning Wire</a>.
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American Businessman Ryan Corbett moved his family to Afghanistan in 2010 where he started a business and became active in the community. But during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal the Corbett family evacuated leaving everything behind. Upon returning to his business in 2022, Ryan and several others were captured by the Taliban. Two years later he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-for-biden-to-secure-release-of-american-held-hostage-by-taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remains a prisoner</a>. Morning Wire sat down with Ryan’s wife, Anna, to discuss his unlawful detainment by the Taliban – and how the Biden administration and incoming Trump administration are handling it.
JOHN: Joining us now to discuss her husband, Ryan Corbett’s ongoing unlawful detention by the Taliban is Anna Corbett. Anna, thank you so much for coming on.
ANNA: Thank you for having me. I appreciate this opportunity.
JOHN: So, since your husband Ryan was captured, you’ve been really working to raise awareness and advocate for his release. That recently led to you talking on the phone with President Biden. First, how did that call go?
ANNA: It was a difficult call. I had just received a call from Ryan in the morning. I was traveling. There was a lot in my head and a lot of hope going into that call. And although he was kind and sympathetic to our family and obviously tracking the situation, hearing from him … that he did not seem to be bringing Ryan home and taking a deal on the table was devastating and obviously very disappointing.
JOHN: Was this the first time that you had talked to President Biden?
ANNA: It was the first time and I had been asking for an in-person meeting for a long time and that was also disappointing just to have a phone call with no video with him.
JOHN: What do you think is keeping the president from taking this deal?
ANNA: I don&#8217;t know. I am honestly very confused because I have raised a lot of attention and advocated very hard for Ryan, taken 16 trips to D.C., worked in a very bipartisan way, helped pass a House and a Senate resolution and I&#8217;m surprised that more progress wasn&#8217;t made during this administration. And I wonder if there is  fear because it&#8217;s Afghanistan, because of the withdrawal that happened and how it happened. I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s very frustrating from where I sit because, as you know, I took a trip down to Florida to West Palm Beach and am working on advocating with the incoming administration, and it&#8217;s taking a lot of effort from our family.
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JOHN: I&#8217;m sure. What has been the tone from the incoming administration, the Trump administration?
ANNA: This past weekend, I flew down to Florida with my oldest daughter, Katzia, and put in requests to meet with President Trump – unsure of what the outcome of the trip would be, but wanting to do my part in raising awareness for Ryan. And I was incredibly encouraged to meet with my Congresswoman. She was down in Florida and gave me a lot of time and support. And also to see that President Trump sent his incoming national security advisor to me, just within 48 hours of being down in Florida, and he gave us over an hour of his time. I had to beg and work so hard to have a meeting with the current Nationalist Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, and it took 16 months to meet with him.
JOHN: So Trump’s national security advisor, Mike Waltz, came to talk with you in person within just a couple of days – but Biden’s advisor delayed 16 months. I can&#8217;t imagine the frustration there. Can you tell us about your husband&#8217;s situation? How long has he been there? What are the conditions? How&#8217;s he doing?
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ANNA: Ryan has been held now by the Taliban since August 10 of 2022, almost two and a half years now, very close to 900 days, which I hate saying, because we have felt every hour of those 900 days, and he has been held in bad conditions, recently was moved, and so his conditions improved a little bit. He is receiving better food, but he&#8217;s lost a lot of weight. This is having a bad effect on his health, obviously. He&#8217;s only 41, and having constant headaches, ringing in his ears, fainting, discolored extremities. I mean, he&#8217;s told me that I wouldn&#8217;t recognize him, and our communication was very sparse for a long time now. It&#8217;s been about every two weeks, which helps, but it&#8217;s my husband of almost 21 years and I don&#8217;t know where he is. I never know when I&#8217;ll hear from him. I&#8217;m super grateful, I have to say, the Qataris have really helped set up the phone calls and make sure they happen every two weeks and even recently worked on lengthening them. But, it&#8217;s a terrible situation, and I keep highlighting — like, he&#8217;s a dad. He wants to see his kids grow up. He missed his daughter&#8217;s high school graduation. She was voted prom queen. He missed that. He couldn&#8217;t walk her out for homecoming court. He can&#8217;t watch his son play basketball. He&#8217;s never watched his son play basketball. These are opportunities that every dad wants to have and needs to have with his kids. It&#8217;s just devastating what is going on here that he cannot be part of that.
JOHN: Again, I can&#8217;t imagine. For those not familiar with your story, what led to his capture? How did this all get started?
ANNA: We lived in Afghanistan as a family. I know that&#8217;s unusual, but we lived there for almost 12 years and he had started a business in Kabul and when we had to evacuate as a family, when the Taliban took over, he did not want to leave his staff behind. He didn&#8217;t want to abandon what was making a difference in the Afghan people&#8217;s lives. And so he kept his business open from a distance. We moved back here to New York. And he took one trip in January, 2022, no problems, renewed his visa smoothly, and was given a warm welcome. And then on the second trip in August, 2022, he was detained and has been held since. So he was trying to help the Afghan people. There have been no accusations, no charges against him. And he was designated as wrongfully detained by our government.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/held-prisoner-in-afghanistan-a-family-s-fight-for-freedom-1-18-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LISTEN: Catch the full interview with Anna Corbett on Morning Wire</a></h3>
JOHN: All right. So the government officially states that he&#8217;s wrongfully detained, yet has not taken the action to get him back. What steps are you taking now? And what ways can people help in this situation? Is there anything our listeners can do?
ANNA: Your listeners can continue praying for Ryan and our family that we will continue hoping and staying strong each day. Also, we have a website, <a href="https://www.freeryancorbett.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FreeRyanCorbett.com</a> with a lot of information. And now that this current administration is almost finished, we&#8217;re needing to focus on the incoming administration and we will have information on the website on how to do that and how people can get the word out. It&#8217;s completely unjust and I believe every family out there can empathize with what we&#8217;re going through. When one family member is going through a horrible situation, we all feel it constantly. And until Ryan&#8217;s home, we cannot rest or even enjoy the opportunities we have in our freedom here in the States because Ryan&#8217;s still being held and has only access to sunlight a couple times a day and has no choices and is missing so much in his family&#8217;s life.
JOHN: If you could deliver a direct message to Donald Trump as he’s set to return to the White House this week, what would that be?
ANNA: I would say to him, please remember Ryan, and please do everything you can to bring Ryan home. And I would ask the incoming administration, including incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz that I&#8217;ve spoken with, and others involved in roles to bring Ryan home, to prioritize our family. Also, George [Glezmann] is held with Ryan. He&#8217;s in the same cell, same situation, wrongfully detained, and his family needs him as well. So, there are U.S. citizens who are alive —there&#8217;s proof of life. We just spoke to Ryan on Sunday, and they need to come home.
JOHN: Well, our prayers are with your husband, Ryan, and with <a href="https://jamesfoleyfoundation.org/hostage/george-glezmann/#gsc.tab=0">George Glezmann</a> – and your talk with Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is encouraging. Thank you so much for talking with us.
ANNA: Thanks for having me, I really appreciate it.
JOHN: That was Anna Corbett, wife of Ryan Corbett – and this has been a special <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/held-prisoner-in-afghanistan-a-family-s-fight-for-freedom-1-18-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday edition of Morning Wire</a>.
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Her Husband Is Being Held Prisoner By The Taliban. An Interview With Anna Corbett.

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The Taliban in Afghanistan, with a history of detrimental behavior toward women, has now decided all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan that employ women must be shut down.
“The announcement comes <a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-education-taliban-7583cf97e3d96e0d07cd7674c3b5a3c3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two years after they told NGOs to suspend</a> the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly,” AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-ngo-women-closure-1fde989369785f8df0e83c81d48626f1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The Afghanistan Ministry of Economy issued this statement on X (as translated by Google):
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The Ministry of Economy, as the authority for registering non-Emirati institutions, is responsible for coordinating, leading, and supervising all activities of domestic and foreign NGOs. Therefore, once again, a follow-up circular has been issued to stop the work of female employees in non-Emirati and foreign institutions. In case of non-cooperation, all activities of the offending institution will be suspended and the activity license they received from this ministry will be canceled.
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وزارت اقتصاد منحیث مرجع ثبت و راجستر موسسات غیر امارتی، مسولیت انسجام، رهبری و نظارت تمامی فعالیت های انجو های داخلی و خارجی را به عهده دارد. بناً یکبار دیگر طی متحدالمال تعقیبی در مورد توقف کار طبقه اناث در موسسات غیر امارتی داخلی و خارجی هدایت داده شده است. در صورت عدم همکاری… <a href="https://t.co/kqiW7Re3an">pic.twitter.com/kqiW7Re3an</a>
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On Saturday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement declaring that new buildings should not have windows that could be used to see &#8220;the courtyard, kitchen, neighbor&#8217;s well and other places usually used by women. &#8230; Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.”
“Since the Taliban&#8217;s return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240831-afghanistan-women-erased-taliban-international-community-looks-on" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erased from public spaces</a>,” France 24 <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-areas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “The Taliban administration claims that Islamic law ‘guarantees’ the rights of Afghan men and women.”
The despotic Iranian regime, which was not close to the Taliban in the past, joined forces with the group last summer; Iranian Interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi urged member states of the Islamic Cooperation Organization to exert pressure on Israel, Mehr News, affiliated with the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council, <a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/06/17/727616/Iran-Afghanistan-Ali-Bagheri-Kani-Amir-Khan-Muttaqi-Israel-crimes-Palestine-OIC-genocide-South-Africa-International-Court-of-Justice-cooperation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in June.
“The Taliban had informed Tehran that it is prepared to deploy thousands of troops to fight against Israel, a senior reporter working with the Lebanese Hezbollah-run Al Akhbar Daily <a href="https://8am.media/fa/lebanese-journalists-claim-taliban-are-ready-to-send-fighters-to-fight-with-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b46QEV6R_a4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on June 13. Iran has sought to facilitate a relationship between the Taliban and the Iranian regime’s proxies, including Hezbollah,” FDD <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/06/21/iran-and-taliban-discuss-joint-action-against-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> adding, “A week prior, Tehran <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/06/10/iskps-transnational-reemergence/#:~:text=Given%20ISKP%E2%80%99s%20growing,high%2Dlevel%20meetings." target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> various meetings between members of the Taliban and Hamas.”

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Thomas Kasza, a &#8220;Green Beret turned humanitarian,&#8221; told NewsNation on Tuesday that he warned filmmakers about showing the faces of America&#8217;s Afghan allies in a documentary on Green Berets before a man featured in the film was killed by the Taliban.
National Geographic, a Disney joint venture, removed its documentary, &#8220;Retrograde,&#8221; from its streaming platform over the summer after a 21-year-old Afghan contractor featured in the film was caught and murdered by the Taliban. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/05/22/retrograde-documentary-film-taliban-heineman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> earlier this year that &#8220;Retrograde&#8221; director Matthew Heineman and producer Caitlin McNally decided to show close-ups of the Afghan man and others who helped U.S. forces clear mines. Kasza said that decision came after warnings from him and other former Green Berets and military members who said that showing the Afghan men in the film would put them in danger.
Kasza <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/danabramslive/retrograde-afghanistan-film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation&#8217;s Dan Abrams that, according to an interpreter he&#8217;s in contact with, the Afghan man was shown &#8220;Retrograde&#8221; clips while the Taliban tortured him for up to 15 days. Kasza said, &#8220;It boggles the mind really why National Geographic, Disney &#8230; would actually kind of go to these lengths to not only just expose them, but then kind of abandon them after the fact, after this guy was killed.&#8221;
The former Green Beret added that he knows the filmmakers received warnings about releasing the documentary with the Afghans&#8217; faces unobscured because he was one of the five people mentioned in the Washington Post article who discussed the issues with them.
Kasza, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he and other military members initially saw the film as &#8220;a tremendous opportunity,&#8221; but after viewing the premiere of the documentary, he was concerned for the safety of U.S. allies in Afghanistan.
&#8220;Because we saw the behind-the-scenes and we knew the reality of the situation, we were able to convey the gravity of the situation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Unfortunately, they didn&#8217;t heed our warnings.&#8221;
Kasza added, &#8220;Our objectives are not to pick a fight with Disney or pick a fight with National Geographic. Our entire purpose here is to provide aid for these guys. And the fact that Disney, which was market-capped for $210 billion as of today, doesn&#8217;t want to contribute any assistance in any kind of matter is kind of preposterous.&#8221;
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Following the Washington Post&#8217;s story on the controversy, multiple awards the film won were revoked. Kasza <a href="https://x.com/TKasza1208/status/1855899229274947929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X earlier this month that he hopes the developments will &#8220;spur @Disney, @NatGeo or @MattHeineman to finally render assistance to the widow and the remaining eight affected families.&#8221;

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Last month, the Taliban put into effect new laws stripping the women of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a> of the last of their basic human rights. While here in America, feminists like to define their basic human rights as access to abortion, Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak in public, show any skin or leave their home without a male chaperone.
As of late August, the Taliban received approval from supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to put into place its “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-vice-virtue-laws-women-b6db61e124116c712c867d2e1a4532ba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice and Virtue decree</a>,” which prohibits Islamic people from many religious and daily practices. Females were, unsurprisingly, hit the hardest by these new laws. Afghan women have been deemed as temptations, and therefore cannot show any skin or use their voices in public for any reason. They also may not make eye contact with men to whom they are not married, or blood related, out of fear of punishment and torture.
These new practices and ones already in place, including the end of education for women at 12 years of age and the inability to see male doctors, have not only left women with no rights, but truly no chance at a healthy and contented life. If these women are not allowed to be educated enough to be health care providers, and also can’t see male doctors, what will happen to them if and when they need health care? They will clearly become sick and suffer — which is, ultimately, the Taliban’s goal.
Women have been banned from most public spaces including parks, gyms and many stores. This has left women-led households particularly vulnerable. Since women are no longer let out of the home without a male, they are unable to walk, exercise or even shop for basic necessities like food.
Why is no one talking about this? Coming up on a month after the new bans took effect, the Biden Administration has barely mentioned this situation, let alone done anything to combat it. Where are the thousands of women who marched and protested after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and chanted “my body my choice?” Why don’t these people seem to care about the Afghan women having no rights over their bodies — including what they can wear, who they can speak to, or if they can speak at all? Or what about the girls as young as 5-years-old being sold into marriages under the Taliban — what about their choice?
The answer ultimately comes down to the sad fact that it was the Biden-Harris Administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-threats-from-afghanistan-have-flourished-under-biden-harris-admin-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who helped fuel</a> the Taliban to be able to perpetrate these acts in the first place. It is American taxpayer dollars that have been sent to make all of this happen. In August, the Taliban received <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-aid-vetting-failures-may-have-benefited-militants-afghanistan-watchdog-finds-2024-07-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly $240 million</a> in U.S. aid. The funds, ironically, even came from a State Department division called “Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.” How does funding a brutal group that uses physical abuse as punishment for speaking in public qualify as maintaining human rights?
In Afghanistan, women&#8217;s lives are truly not their own. This is not just a matter of abortion or contraception as we hear in America. Women are being sentenced to death for “moral crimes” such as adultery or refusal of arranged marriages. Women who commit these crimes are being put to death, even by stoning. Afghan women are also eligible for forced “virginity testing” which are often inaccurate tests performed on young women to determine if they have abstained from sexual relations. If girls “fail” these tests, they can face torture, ridicule or death, even in cases of rape. If a woman has been raped and is married, she is an adulterer, which once again circles back to the “moral crimes” punishments.
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It’s important to note that Afghanistan wasn’t always like this. Prior to the Afghan–Soviet War in 1979, women actually experienced a fair number of freedoms. They were able to work, express themselves through choice of clothing. But after the war, and the initial takeover by the Taliban in 1996, these women and girls slowly started to lose themselves to the evil that had taken over their home.
American feminists might want to open their eyes to see beyond their tired and misguided rhetoric. Take a look at what actual denial of a woman’s control over her body looks like.
These women will continue to suffer under the Taliban as long as Biden and Harris remain in office. It is their policy blunders that have assisted in the progression of these inhumane acts. In the meantime, Islamic women have taken to social media and to singing in the streets to protest the laws leaving them deprived of actual human rights.
The next time American feminists try to tell you about your “oppression” as a female in America, remember you are still allowed to speak in public, receive an education, carry out a career, and have access to world-class health care — all unattainable dreams for Afghan women who don’t have the blessing and privilege to be a woman in America today.
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Tessa Gervasini is a recent graduate of Texas Christian University.
The view expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Republican presidential nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend for her role in the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021.
Trump brought up the embarrassing withdrawal after the Taliban <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-reminds-world-of-biden-harris-humiliating-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-with-military-parade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paraded</a> around billions of dollars worth of U.S. military hardware this week on the three-year anniversary of the country&#8217;s collapse.
&#8220;Two days ago, I watched a parade of the Taliban in Afghanistan,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Did you see the Taliban where they were showing all of our equipment that they took from America? $85 billion worth, two days ago, celebrating three years of the defeat of America by these guys.&#8221;
He highlighted how his strength in projecting American military power convinced the Taliban to stop attacking U.S. forces in the country for a year and a half.
&#8220;For 18 months, we didn&#8217;t have one American soldier killed in Afghanistan,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then I left and this bunch of incompetent people took over, and it all started up again.&#8221;
Trump said that the event was the &#8220;most embarrassing day in the history of our country&#8221; and noted that Harris had bragged about how she was &#8220;the last person in the room&#8221; when the administration decided to withdraw from the country.
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&#8220;In other words, she had the final vote, and she bragged about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan. It should have never, ever happened. We should have gotten out with dignity and strength. And you don&#8217;t take your military out first, you take your military out last.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;Two days ago, I watched a parade of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where they were showing all our equipment they took from America&#8211; $85 billion worth&#8230; Kamala bragged about being the last person in the room the night that decision was made.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/NwnVX4ElUq">pic.twitter.com/NwnVX4ElUq</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1824934201042325820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

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The Taliban paraded billions of dollars worth of American military hardware around the streets of Afghanistan on Wednesday near the U.S.&#8217;s former airbase inside the country.
The Islamic extremist group, which is not recognized by any country as being the legitimate government of Afghanistan, touted U.S. military vehicles, helicopters, and weapons at the parade at Bagram air base.
The Department of Defense Inspector General <a href="https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3129145/lead-inspector-general-for-operation-enduring-sentinel-and-operation-freedoms-s/">said</a> in a report a year after Afghanistan&#8217;s fall that the Biden-Harris Administration left behind &#8220;U.S.-funded equipment valued at $7.12 billion&#8221;, which fell into the Taliban&#8217;s hands, including &#8220;military aircraft, ground vehicles, weapons, and other military equipment.&#8221;
The hardware left behind included nearly a billion dollars worth of aircraft, over 40,000 military vehicles, more than 300,000 weapons, and tens of millions of dollars worth of ammunition.
Also left behind were nearly all communications equipment that the U.S. gave to Afghan forces and nearly all other advanced military electronics, including night vision and surveillance equipment.
The Biden-Harris Administration&#8217;s August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic and projected American weakness around the world. Many say that this moment of weakness played a factor in Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s decision to start a war by invading Ukraine just six months later.
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Check out the military vehicles and helicopters left behind by the U.S. for the Taliban three years ago—now parading through the streets of Afghanistan… <a href="https://t.co/viK2bw0CbI">pic.twitter.com/viK2bw0CbI</a>
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During the withdrawal, 13 service members were killed in a terrorist attack during evacuations at an airport in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital city of Kabul. When the soldiers were flown home, Biden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-after-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-of-13-slain-troops-late-for-your-nap">caught</a> checking the time on his watch as their bodies were unloaded.
Since the U.S.&#8217;s withdrawal from the country, Islamic terrorist groups have reconstituted inside Afghanistan and have started growing at a rate that has alarmed many U.S. officials.

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Taliban Reminds World Of Biden-Harris’ Humiliating Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Military Parade

Taliban Reminds World Of Biden-Harris' Humiliating Withdrawal From Afghanistan With Military Parade

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An American captured by the Taliban a year after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021 remains a hostage, and his family is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of action from President Joe Biden as his health deteriorates. 
Ryan Corbett’s wife, Anna Corbett, has been fighting for his release, appearing before Congress and on major news networks to call on Biden and lawmakers to act. Since he was taken hostage, Corbett’s family has managed to secure nine brief video calls with him, and see that his condition is worsening.
His wife told The Daily Wire that the last call came this Sunday and says the call only &#8220;heightened&#8221; her concerns, learning that he has new health issues.
&#8220;My latest call with Ryan only heightened my concerns about his mental and physical health following more than 22 months in a basement cell without access to sunlight or nutritious foods,&#8221; Anna Corbett said. &#8220;My once healthy husband now faints without warning, experiences constant ringing in his ears, and is losing faith that this nightmare will ever end.&#8221;
&#8220;I continue to call on President Biden to meet with me to discuss how we can bring Ryan home before it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; she added.
A spokesman for Biden&#8217;s State Department would not specify any steps that had been taken to bring Corbett, a father of three, back to the United States, only telling The Daily Wire that it “will continue to work securing his immediate release.” 
“We are in contact with the UN Special Rapporteur&#8217;s office and welcome their efforts to call for more humane conditions Ryan and others held by the Taliban,” a State Department spokesman told The Daily Wire in an email. “We consider Ryan’s detention to be wrongful and we will continue to work securing his immediate release.” 
The United Nations official referenced by the State Department <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/afghanistan-detained-american-aid-workers-life-risk-if-no-urgent-medical">warned</a> earlier this month of Corbett’s deteriorating health and called on the Taliban to give him “medical treatment in a civilian hospital without delay.” 
“The conditions in which this humanitarian worker is being detained are utterly inadequate and substantially below international standards. This is having a significant impact on his physical and mental health, which is declining rapidly. Without adequate medical care he is at risk of irreparable harm or even death,” said Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Corbett and his family first <a href="https://www.freeryancorbett.com/about-ryan">moved to Afghanistan</a> in 2010 and started Bloom Afghanistan, an enterprise focused on improving the war-torn country’s private sector. The Corbett family safely evacuated from Afghanistan when the United States withdrew under Biden’s orders in August 2021, creating a vacuum that the Taliban quickly seized to take power. 
About five months after U.S. forces left Afghanistan, Corbett returned to the country by himself to renew his visa and train more staff for his enterprise. He was initially welcomed back to Afghanistan and remained there until August 10, 2022, when he, along with two Afghans and a German colleague were detained by Taliban forces. While the Afghans were released a month later and Corbett’s German colleague was let go in December 2022, Corbett is still being held hostage, likely for political leverage. 
Corbett’s 18-year-old daughter Ketsia — who is set to graduate from high school on June 28 — recorded a video last week describing her dad’s situation and asking President Biden to act soon to save her father. 
“It feels like the last two years of my childhood have been stolen from me. Every day I get out of bed, put on a smile, and push forward,” Ketsia says in the video. “But my dad’s suffering is constantly on my mind and in my prayers. We’ve talked to him only eight times, but the calls have become more and more terrifying. My dad’s being tortured and abused and he feels forgotten and alone.” 
“He has no idea what’s being done to bring him home and why it’s taking so long” she continued, adding, “President Biden, if you see this or read my letter, I’m asking you to do everything you can to can to bring my dad home. I hope you can meet him one day because he is an amazing man.” 
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Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign told The Daily Wire that Corbett would be a free man if Trump was in office.
“President Trump brought more Americans back home and reunited them with their families because other countries knew not to test him,” said Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung. “With Biden in office, America is no longer respected on the world stage and has made Americans across the world more vulnerable.&#8221;
 &#8220;There is only one person who can negotiate the safe return of hostages like Ryan Corbett back to his family — President Trump,&#8221; Cheung added. 
Republican Congressman Mark Green (R-TN), who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called on Biden to “make it clear that we will not tolerate the wrongful detainment of Americans.” 
“President Biden&#8217;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal was saddled with grievous error after grievous error despite being warned repeatedly that the return of the Taliban was not a question of if, but when,” Green told the The Daily Wire. “Just because the War on Terror has wound down does not mean our commitment to safeguarding American lives is over. President Biden must make it clear that we will not tolerate the wrongful detainment of Americans. I pray for Ryan’s family and his safe return home.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> vowed in a message to the West over the weekend that it will soon return to stoning women to death in public.
“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to The Telegraph. “But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public.”
&#8220;These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.&#8221;
The publication said that these remarks are the most extreme that he has made since the Biden administration effectively handed over control of Afghanistan to the Taliban during President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from the country in August 2021.
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The report noted that the Taliban reverted to its old extreme methods of punishment almost immediately after taking over, including carrying out public executions and beating people.
“Do women want the rights that Westerners are talking about? They are against Sharia and clerics’ opinions, the clerics who toppled Western democracy,” he said. “I told the Mujahedin that we tell the Westerners that we fought against you for 20 years and we will fight 20 and even more years against you.”
“It did not finish [when you left]. It does not mean we would now just sit and drink tea. We will bring Sharia to this land,” he continued. “It did finish after we took over Kabul. No, we will now bring Sharia into action.”
A U.N. report from last year found that 37 people had already been sentenced to stoning under the Taliban regime and that more than 100 had received sentences for &#8220;crimes against God&#8221;, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-vows-publicly-stone-women-death-direct-message-western-democracies">Fox News</a>. Some of the punishments included lashings and having walls knocked down on individuals.

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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Green</a> (R-TN) issued a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> on Tuesday over documents related to the screening of the tens of thousands of Afghans the Biden administration brought into the U.S. during the August 2021 withdrawal from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a>. 
Green and other House lawmakers have been investigating how the Biden administration screened the more than 76,000 Afghans flown into the U.S. for resettlement as the military left Afghanistan and the Taliban took over. According to Green, Mayorkas has not provided all of the documents requested, including DHS communications on vetting the evacuees, documents which were requested 160 days ago. 
“In the wake of the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country has once again become a breeding ground for foreign terrorist organizations under Taliban rule, and the Committee is still seeking answers on how the Biden administration vetted those entering the United States following the withdrawal,” Green’s office said in a press release. 
Green’s <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-31-Subpoena-re-Afghanistan-Screening-and-Vetting.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoena</a> stipulates that Mayorkas is to appear before the committee on November 7 at the Ford House Office Building in Washington, D.C., at 12:00 p.m. 
“On October 20, 2023, the Department provided a partial production containing limited data on Afghan evacuees. Although the production contained 1,601 pages, it is wholly inadequate. For example, 150 pages were either wholly redacted, devoid of content, or illegible. Further, many of the remaining pages appear to be nothing more than scanned printouts from spreadsheets of data that were provided in a format that rendered them indecipherable,” Green wrote in a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-31-Green-to-Mayorkas-DHS-re-Subpoena-Afghan-Screening-and-Vetting.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Mayorkas. 
The lawmakers&#8217; investigation into the screening of the evacuees comes after stories that some of the Afghans brought into the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-refugees-face-federal-charges-after-trying-to-rape-child-strangle-woman-in-wisconsin-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced charges</a> of attempted rape of a minor and other physical abuse in addition to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-dozens-of-afghan-evacuees-flagged-for-potential-terror-ties-two-shipped-out-of-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens being flagged</a> for potential terror ties. 
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“While the produced documents provide some basic information regarding Afghan evacuees, they fall well short of what was requested by the Committee. For example, the Department failed to produce a single e-mail or other communication from Department employees related to the withdrawal from Afghanistan or Customs and Border Protection’s screening, vetting, or inspection of Afghan evacuees at U.S. ports of entry,” Green added in his letter. 
Last year, the Inspector General for DHS released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-blasts-bidens-homeland-security-for-improperly-vetting-afghan-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scathing report</a> that said that the agency “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”
At least two Afghan evacuees were shipped out of the U.S. after they were initially let in, while State Department officials have also investigated adult male Afghan evacuees who had child “brides” with them at processing centers in the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. U.S. military bases that housed the evacuees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-bases-incurred-millions-in-damages-after-hosting-afghan-evacuees-during-bidens-withdrawal-report-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incurred millions of dollars</a> in damages, making some facilities unusable for U.S. soldiers.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-tell-mayorkas-to-not-bring-large-numbers-of-palestinians-into-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: House Republicans Tell Mayorkas Not To Bring &#8216;Large Numbers Of Palestinians&#8217; Into U.S. </a>

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