US officials hold talks in Kabul over Americans detained in Afghanistan

FILE PHOTO: Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi attends the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tehran, Iran December 23, 2023. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. officials held talks on Saturday with the authorities in Kabul over Americans held in Afghanistan, the Taliban administration said, as the White House pushes to free citizens it sees aswrongly detained abroad.

Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s special hostage envoy, and Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, met the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi.