Elderly British couple released by Taliban after months of detention

NAMPA / DPA

2025-09-19

London (PA Media/dpa) - An elderly British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan. Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, have been released by the Taliban, the British Foreign Office confirmed on Friday. The couple were arrested as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan, in February. They have been held since then without charge and for a long period had been separated and detained i......

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