An American woman who has been held by the Taliban in Afghanistan has been freed, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Saturday. “American citizen Faye Hall, just released by the Taliban,

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released. That's according to a person familiar with the matter, as well as a social media post Saturday from a longtime U.

Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. envoy to Kabul who is working on Taliban hostage releases, posted a picture of Faye Hall smiling with Qatar representatives ahead of her departure from Afghanistan on Saturday.