Taliban demand that US release prisoners

The official representative of the radical group Suheil Shahin said that the movement gave the United States a list of five thousand prisoners who should be released.

“There should be no fraud with this list”, – Shahin emphasized.

The issue of the exchange of prisoners between the Taliban and the government is provided for by the US-Taliban agreements concluded on February 29 in the capital of Qatar, Doha. An exchange of five thousand Taliban prisoners for one thousand prisoners from among government forces is supposed.