U.S. offers $5 million reward in search for Afghan-American believed abducted in Kabul in 2022

The United States offered a reward of $ 5 million on Tuesday For more information that helps find an Afghan-American national, he said he was kidnapped in Kabul in 2022.

Mahmood Habibi, who worked for a telecommunications company, was taken with his driver and owned by the Taliban government intelligence service, the State Department said.

He was seized with 29 other employees of the company for which he worked, reported the Reuters news agency, citing a notice from the State Department. All except Habibi and another person have since been released.

“The so-called Taliban government has not yet provided information about the place or condition or the condition of Mr. Habibi,” said journalists, the spokesperson for the State Department.

After Mahmood Habibi disappeared, the Taliban denied having taken her.

The United States considers it being unjustly held. But the Taliban repeated CBS News in January that they had not habit in detention.

The Taliban government Released two other Americans in January, Ryan Corbett and William McKentyFor an Afghan detained in the United States in an exchange mediated by Qatar.

Dozens of foreign nationals have been arrested since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 following the withdrawal of the American army from Afghanistan.