Trump's hostage envoy Boehler met with Taliban in Kabul in first in-person meeting since takeover

FIRST ON FOX: Hostage envoy Adam Boehler met successful idiosyncratic with Taliban officials astatine the Kabul International Airport, Qatari sources told Fox News Digital, marking the archetypal known clip the White House has engaged with Afghanistan’s "interim government" pursuing the 2021 takeover by the violent organization.

While the gathering betwixt Boehler and Afghan officials representing the Taliban’s overseas ministry met to unafraid the merchandise of George Glezmann connected Thursday, advisor and spokesperson to Qatar's premier minister, Dr Majed al-Ansari, told Fox News Digital that different "beneficial" issues were discussed. 

"U.S. envoy Adam Boehler came to Doha. He had meetings implicit here, and past we moved to Kabul, wherever helium had meetings successful the airdrome with the overseas curate and different Afghan officials," al-Ansari said. "That was the archetypal gathering of its benignant and opened the doorway for a batch of dialog connected tons of issues, including the issues of detainees."

U.S. national George Glezmann stands astatine Kabul Airport pursuing his merchandise from Afghanistan custody, with U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler, erstwhile U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Qatari diplomats, earlier departing for Doha, Qatar, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, connected March 20, 2025. (Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via REUTERS   )

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"But besides different issues that tin beryllium precise beneficial for the Afghan radical and for the radical of the United States, and providing information regionally for Afghanistan, but besides successful general," helium added. "It was a bully archetypal measurement that we helped facilitate."

The White House did not instrumentality Fox News Digital’s questions connected whether Boehler’s in-person gathering suggests the Trump medication whitethorn look to found ties with the Taliban authorities – a taxable that has been taboo among Western nations pursuing the toppling of the democratically elected authorities and the consequent terrible quality rights violations, including the removal of fundamentally each women’s rights. 

Al-Ansari confirmed that portion Qatar has been moving with the U.S. since 2022 to facilitate dialog betwixt Washington and Kabul successful the much than 3 years since the deadly takeover, this is the archetypal clip the White House has straight engaged with the Taliban government. 

President Donald Trump, left, listens arsenic Adam Boehler, the CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, addresses the regular coronavirus task unit briefing successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., April 14, 2020. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

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"We ever said that the mode to resoluteness each of these issues each astir the satellite is done dialog, is done talking, and is done opening a mode of engagement that is affirmative and that would bring astir much spot betwixt the parties, and would bring astir affirmative results," al-Ansari added, nodding toward Qatar’s dense engagement successful negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas. 

Boehler, who has not been confirmed by the Senate aft helium removed his information arsenic peculiar envoy to debar divestment stipulations, serves arsenic a "special authorities worker focused connected hostage negotiations," according to a connection by White House lawman property caput Anna Kelly.

The state of Glezmann is the 2nd large merchandise Boehler secured this period aft Marc Fogel was returned from Russia pursuing his August 2021 arrest. 

President Donald Trump, left, welcomes Marc Fogel backmost to the United Stated aft being released from Russian custody, astatine the White House connected Feb. 11, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Boehler, who helped unafraid the Abraham Accords arsenic a pb negotiator during the archetypal Trump administration, turned heads pursuing the revelation that helium met with different violent enactment earlier this period – Hamas.

The hostage envoy met straight with Hamas officials successful an effort to unafraid the merchandise of the 5 American hostages inactive held successful the Gaza Strip, including Edan Alexander, who is the lone remaining American hostage inactive alive.