American Freed After Two Years in Taliban Custody, State Department Says

The Biden administration waited nearly a year before designating George Glezmann as wrongfully detained (@jamesfoleyfoundation Instagram) The Trump administration has secured the release of Taliban captive George Glezmann, an American citizen whom the Biden administration failed to designate as “wrongfully detained” for nearly a year, the State Department announced Thursday. “Today, after two and a

Georgetown University researcher in U.S. on student visa detained by ICE

Washington — A Georgetown University researcher was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses, according to court records and the Department of Homeland Security, which alleged he has “close connections” to a Hamas official.  Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, is a postdoctoral associate who

Taliban Frees American Citizen Detained in Afghanistan for Years, Rubio Announces

George Glezmann is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January of this year. The Taliban has freed an American citizen, George Glezmann, after holding him in Afghanistan for years, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday. “George was wrongfully detained in Afghanistan for two and a half years, but