The Invisible American Prisoner: Taliban Refuses to Acknowledge U.S. Hostage
More than three years after his detention in Kabul, Mahmood Habibi remains invisible to the world. While the Taliban has released three other Americans since January 2025 in deals celebrated by both the Biden and Trump administrations, the Afghan-American telecommunications expert sits in a legal and diplomatic limbo that his family says grows more dangerous by the day.
The Taliban continues to deny holding him at all, despite what United States officials describe as overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
