{"id":19475,"date":"2026-03-24T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19475"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:28:11","slug":"afghanistan-releases-detained-u-s-citizen-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/24\/afghanistan-releases-detained-u-s-citizen-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan releases detained U.S. citizen, ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The country\u2019s Foreign Ministry said a detained U.S. citizen, Dennis Quill, has been released from prison.<br>According to a statement from the ministry on Tuesday, his release was announced during a meeting between Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Foreign Minister, and Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, with representatives from the United Arab Emirates and a family member of Quill also present.<br>Muttaqi said the decision was made after Quill\u2019s mother, who had appealed in a letter to the Islamic Emirate Leader for his release on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.<br>He added that Afghanistan\u2019s supreme court deemed the time served sufficient and approved his release.<br>The minister said: \u201cDetainees are held based on legal violations rather than political motives and are released following judicial processes.\u201d<br>He also thanked the UAE, particularly Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for facilitating the release.<br>Khalilzad welcomed the move, calling it a positive step and stressing the importance of continued dialogue between Kabul and Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The country\u2019s Foreign Ministry said a detained U.S. citizen, Dennis Quill, has been released from prison.According to a statement from the ministry on Tuesday, his release was announced during a meeting between Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Foreign Minister, and Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, with representatives from the United Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19477,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions\/19477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}