Taliban blames US for failed prisoner swap

By Jibran Ahmed and Hamid Shalizi
Updated November 16 2019 - 6:03am, first published 6:00am
The Taliban have blamed the US for scuttling the offer to release Professor Timothy Weeks.
The Taliban have blamed the US for scuttling the offer to release Professor Timothy Weeks.

A plan to swap an Australian professor and his American colleague for three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, with Taliban sources saying the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".

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