Afghanistan’s Taliban released a new video on Wednesday showing two professors, one American and one Australian, urging US President Donald Trump to negotiate their freedom with the Islamist insurgent group.
60 year old American Kevin King and 48 year old Australian Timothy Weeks, teachers with the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, were kidnapped at gunpoint near the campus last August.
The Taliban wants freedom for its soldiers being held at the US-run Bagram air base and the Afghan prison called Pul-e-Charkhi in return for freeing the two professors, the hostages said in their video message.
A US State Department official said later that they are still working to examine the video and were not in a position to comment on it immediately.