Two U.S. citizens held for years by the Taliban have been released from imprisonment in exchange for an Afghan drug trafficker. The family of Ryan Corbett, a U.S. citizen who was kidnapped by the terrorist government in August 2022,

Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release of 2 Americans in a prisoner exchange. Ryan Corbett's family says he's one of them.

The prisoner exchange was the result of "long and productive" negotiations between Afghan and American authorities, Afghanistan's foreign ministry said in a statement. Mohammad was arrested in eastern Afghanistan in 2006 and extradited to the U.S a year later, according to the DOJ website.