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Faye Hall, American detained by Taliban, has been released

An American woman who had been detained by the Taliban since February has been freed, a source with knowledge of the release told Fox News on Saturday.
American citizen Faye Hall was released on Thursday and received at the Qatari embassy in Kabul. She has been confirmed to be in good health after undergoing a series of medical checks, the source said. Arrangements are currently underway for her return to the United States.
The Taliban agreed to release Hall after President Donald Trump removed multimillion-dollar bounties on senior members of the militant group, according to a report by the Telegraph.
Faye Hall, an American woman who had been detained by the Taliban since February, has been freed a source with knowledge of the release told Fox News Saturday. (Diplomatic source in Afghanistan)
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Trump agreed to remove millions of dollars of bounties on three senior members of the Haqqani network, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban government’s interior minister, the outlet reported, noting that Washington was offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Fox News Digital wasn’t immediately able to confirm the nature of the agreement and has reached out to the White House and the State Department for comment.
Her release was initiated following a court order and with logistical support from Qatar serving in its role as the United States’ protecting power in Afghanistan, the Fox News source said.
Hall, along with the British couple, Peter Reynolds, 79, his wife Barbie, 75, and their interpreter were arrested on Feb. 1, the outlet reported.

Faye Hall pictured with Qatari officials following her release. (Diplomatic source in Afghanistan)
FAMILY OF THIRD AMERICAN HELD BY TALIBAN CALLS FOR HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ‘WE ARE CONCERNED’
The Associated Press previously reported that the British couple ran education programs in Afghanistan via Rebuild, an organization that provides education and training programs for businesses, government agencies, educational organizations and nongovernmental groups.
The Sunday Times said one project was for mothers and children. The Taliban severely restricts women’s education and activities in the country.
It is unclear what relationship Hall had with the couple or their group.
The couple’s detention was not based on any violations of local laws or religious customs, but was a political move by a faction to increase international pressure on the government and Haibatullah Akhundzada, its supreme leader, the Telegraph reported.

Trump agreed to remove millions of dollars of bounties on three senior members of the Haqqani network, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban government’s interior minister, the Telegraph reported.
The couple’s children wrote a letter to the Taliban pleading for their release, saying that the couple respected and obeyed the laws.
«They have chosen Afghanistan as their home, rather than with family in England, and they wish to spend the rest of their lives in Afghanistan,» the letter reads in part, according to the Associated Press.
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Hall’s release comes after the Taliban released American hostage George Glezmann, 65, last week after holding him for more than two years. That deal was also struck after negotiations between the Trump administration and Qatari officials. Glezmann was abducted while visiting Kabul as a tourist on Dec. 5, 2022.
Two other Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were released earlier this year in exchange for a Taliban member in U.S. custody in a final-hour deal struck by the Biden administration.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Ukraine sending drone team to help protect US bases in Jordan at Washington’s request, Zelenskyy says

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Ukraine has dispatched interceptor drones and a team of drone specialists to help protect U.S. military bases in Jordan as fighting tied to the Iran war intensifies across the region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with The New York Times.
Zelenskyy told the NYT that Washington made the request on Thursday, and Kyiv moved swiftly to respond, dispatching the drone team the following day.
«We reacted immediately,» Zelenskyy said. «I said, yes, of course, we will send our experts.»
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for confirmation.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi stands during a joint press conference with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Rob Jetten on March 8, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images)
The reported request comes as the U.S. and Gulf states work to intercept hundreds of Iranian missiles and thousands of drones launched in retaliation for U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranian drones have struck the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, including an attack on a tactical operations center in Kuwait that killed six U.S. service members.
The high volume of Iranian Shahed drone launches has drawn attention to the cost disparity between the relatively inexpensive unmanned aircraft and the far more sophisticated air defense systems, such as Patriot missiles, used to intercept them.
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According to the Department of the Army’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget estimates, the cost for a single Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptor is $3.8 million.
A basic Iranian-designed Shahed drone costs roughly $20,000 to $50,000, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
CENTCOM ISSUES SAFETY WARNING TO IRANIAN CIVILIANS AS REGIME USES ‘HEAVILY POPULATED’ AREAS FOR LAUNCHES

FPV training drones are seen on a wall at the Killhouse Academy drone training center on March 4, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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«Iran knows it can’t match the U.S. or Gulf states plane for plane or missile for missile, but it can change the economics of the conflict,» said Patrycja Bazylczyk, an associate director with the Missile Defense Project at CSIS, in an interview with Military Times.
«Drones let Iran punch above its weight, keep its adversaries off balance, and project power across the region at minimal cost. We can’t just play whack-a-mole in the sky,» she added. «Shooting drones down one by one is the most expensive way to fight the cheapest threat. We have to go after the roots – the launch sites, the production lines, and the storage depots.»
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‘Serious concerns’: GOP sounds alarm on taxpayer funds going to ‘high risk’ universities vulnerable to CCP

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FIRST ON FOX: The House Select Committee on China is calling on the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pause a $67 million research security initiative, citing concerns that the universities leading the effort have engaged in problematic collaborations with Chinese military-linked institutions.
In a Tuesday letter to NSF Interim Director Brian Stone obtained by Fox News Digital, House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, a Republican from Michigan, urged the agency to suspend funding for the «Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem» (SECURE) initiative and conduct a comprehensive review of the participating institutions.
Moolenaar’s concern, expressed in the letter, is that several of those participating institutions, including Texas A&M University and the University of Washington, receive tens of millions from the grant despite ties to the CCP that the committee finds concerning.
«The program is intended to develop tools, data infrastructure, and analytic capabilities for assessing research-security risks,» Moolenaar wrote. «Faculty from UW and TAMU – the same institutions now charged with designing systems and processes to protect taxpayer-funded research – have been collaborating with People’s Republic of China (PRC) defense research and industrial base entities, many of which are on various U.S. government national security entity lists, as detailed in this letter.»
NEW REPORT SOUNDS ALARM ON ‘STAGGERING’ AMOUNT OF FOREIGN MONEY POURING INTO US UNIVERSITIES
The House Select Committee on China is sounding the alarm about taxpayer dollars going to CCP-linked entities. (Li Gang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
The committee alleges the University of Washington collaborated on research with Chinese institutions tied to the CCP’s military and defense sector, including entities on U.S. government watchlists. The committee cited joint publications with PLA-linked organizations, China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and universities known as the «Seven Sons of National Defense,» involving work in AI, advanced materials and other dual-use technologies.
The letter describes the university’s ties as «high-risk research relationships with PRC military- and defense-linked institutions.»
The University of Washington is designated to be awarded $50 million from the grant.
Additionally, the note claims that Texas A&M partnered with Chinese defense-affiliated institutions, including the PLA’s National University of Defense Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology. They argue these collaborations, some involving federally funded research, raise national security concerns and could conflict with U.S. research security and export control laws.
Texas A&M is designated to be awarded $17 million from the grant.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS SOUND ALARM OVER CCP-LINKED FAKE RESEARCH THREATENING US TAXPAYER-FUNDED SCIENCE
«Institutions entrusted with U.S. taxpayer dollars to safeguard the nation’s research enterprise should not simultaneously enable foreign adversaries to access and exploit sensitive research and taxpayer-funded scientific advances,» Moolenaar wrote.
«These joint research projects detailed above raise serious concerns about allocating taxpayer dollars for research security initiatives to institutions like TAMU and UW—institutions with documented and ongoing failures in safeguarding U.S. research from PRC defense entities,» Moolenaar said, adding that it is «troubling that U.S. institutions that collaborate with China’s defense research and industrial base, its nuclear weapons programs, its mass surveillance infrastructure, and institutions on U.S. government national security lists are being entrusted to co-lead the development of national research security frameworks.»
Moolenaar’s letter urges NSF to assess whether the institutions are complying with a range of federal requirements, including National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, and U.S. export control laws.
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Chinese honor guards prepare for the arrival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)
Moolenaar also raised concerns about potential violations of the Wolf Amendment, an appropriations restriction in effect since 2012 that prohibits NASA from engaging in bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government or Chinese government-affiliated organizations in NASA-funded research without specific certification.
Moolenaar’s letter concludes with four requests for NSF to respond to by March 31.
First, the congressman asks if NSF will pause its SECURE contract funding to conduct a «full review» and also requests that NSF provide the committee with the results of that review.
The letter also requests that NSF «provide the award and contract details for the SECURE Initiative» and asks whether NSF believes that «it is appropriate for universities to use U.S. taxpayer funds to conduct research in collaboration with known Chinese defense research and industrial base entities or entities implicated in human rights violations?»
«Will NSF update its terms and conditions to expressly prohibit the use of award funds to conduct research with, or for the benefit of, any entity that appears on a publicly available U.S. government entity list?» the last question in the letter asks. «If not, please explain why.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Texas A&M University for comment, as well as Stanford University, who is mentioned in the letter as being a participant in the program.
«NSF will respond directly to the Committee’s letter,» an NSF spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, a University of Washington spokesperson said, «SECURE is a dynamic program that is not prescriptive but can assist universities of all sizes and other research entities to address research security concerns. The University of Washington takes research security and integrity very seriously. The UW directs significant effort and resources toward being leaders in research security and integrity, and goes above and beyond SECURE’s guidance and recommendations. Given the evolving landscape, we are regularly reviewing our guidelines and protocols.»
Fox News Digital has extensively reported on rising concerns about the CCP’s attempts to infiltrate the education system in the United States, including a sweeping report last year warning that America’s top universities have been quietly partnering with Chinese artificial intelligence labs deeply embedded in Beijing’s surveillance and security state and in some cases co-authoring thousands of papers with entities tied to oppressive efforts against Uyghur Muslims.
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EN VIVO: Una segunda persona murió tras el ataque iraní con una bomba de racimo en el centro de Israel

Las víctimas trabajaban en una obra de construcción cuando el proyectil impactó en la zona
La Guardia Revolucionaria de Irán afirmó en la madrugada del martes que Teherán no permitirá la exportación de “ni un litro de petróleo” de la región si continúan los ataques estadounidenses e israelíes. En un comunicado, sostuvo que “las ecuaciones y el futuro de la región están ahora en manos de nuestras fuerzas armadas; las fuerzas estadounidenses no decidirán cuándo termina el conflicto”.
En respuesta, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, advirtió que Washington responderá “veinte veces más duramente” si el régimen de Irán intenta interrumpir el tránsito de crudo en el estrecho de Ormuz y advirtió con efectuar ataques devastadores que podrían volver “prácticamente imposible” la reconstrucción del país. El mandatario también señaló que persiste incertidumbre sobre el liderazgo iraní tras la muerte de figuras anteriores y afirmó que “ahora nadie tiene idea de quiénes serán los jefes del país” después de la muerte del ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Desde Teherán, el portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Esmaeil Baghaei, aseguró que no existe espacio para conversaciones de alto el fuego mientras continúen los ataques estadounidenses e israelíes. Nuevos misiles y drones iraníes apuntaron contra Israel, bases estadounidenses en Medio Oriente e infraestructura energética en el Golfo.
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Una segunda persona murió tras el ataque iraní con una bomba de racimo en el centro de Israel

El alcalde de Petah Tikva, Rami Greenberg, informó que una segunda persona murió tras el ataque con misiles de racimo lanzado ayer por Irán en la ciudad de Yehud.
El ataque, que involucró un misil balístico equipado con bomba de racimo, provocó la muerte inmediata de un hombre y dejó a otros dos gravemente heridos. Esta mañana, la segunda víctima falleció en el Centro Médico Sheba, según reportaron medios israelíes.
Las víctimas trabajaban en una obra de construcción cuando el proyectil impactó en la zona. De acuerdo con los servicios de emergencia, ninguno de los dos se encontraba en un refugio antiaéreo al momento del ataque.
El presidente del parlamento iraní afirmó que Teherán no busca un alto al fuego

El presidente del Parlamento iraní, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, afirmó este martes que Teherán no busca un alto el fuego en medio de la guerra.
“Ciertamente no buscamos un alto el fuego. Creemos que hay que atacar al agresor para que aprenda la lección y no vuelva a pensar en atacar a Irán”, escribió Ghalibaf en la red social X.
El dirigente sostuvo además que Israel depende de un ciclo de “guerra, negociaciones y alto el fuego y luego otra guerra” para mantener su dominio, y afirmó que Irán romperá ese ciclo.
Las bolsas europeas se recuperan tras los comentarios de Trump sobre el posible fin de la guerra
Las bolsas europeas subieron el martes tras una caída en los precios de la energía, después de que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, señalara que la guerra de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán podría terminar antes de lo previsto.
El índice DAX de Frankfurt, que reúne a las principales empresas alemanas, subió un 2,1%, mientras que el CAC 40 de París avanzó un 1,7% y el FTSE 100 de Londres ganó un 1,4%.
Los precios mundiales del petróleo cayeron alrededor de un 8%, y el gas natural europeo también bajó con fuerza después de que Trump afirmara que la guerra “terminaría pronto”.
Netanyahu afirmó que la ofensiva militar contra Irán “no terminó” y aseguró que el objetivos es debilitar el liderazgo del régimen

El primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu advirtió que la ofensiva militar de Israel contra Irán “aún no terminó” y sostuvo que las operaciones buscan debilitar al liderazgo clerical iraní. Las declaraciones se realizaron durante una visita el lunes por la noche al Centro Nacional de Operaciones de Emergencia Sanitaria, según un comunicado publicado el martes.
“Nuestra aspiración es que el pueblo iraní se libere del yugo de la tiranía”, afirmó Netanyahu. “En última instancia, depende de ellos. Pero no cabe duda de que, con las medidas adoptadas hasta ahora, estamos machacando sus huesos, y aún no hemos terminado”.
El jefe del gobierno israelí sostuvo que un eventual cambio político en Irán depende de la población del país. “Si tenemos éxito junto con el pueblo iraní, lograremos un fin permanente —si tales cosas existen en la vida de las naciones— y generaremos un cambio”, indicó.
El Ejército de Israel bombardeó activos de la asociación financiera del grupo terrorista Hezbollah
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel informaron que completaron una serie de ataques aéreos contra sucursales de la asociación Al-Qard al-Hasan, vinculada a Hezbolá, que según el ejército funciona como un cuasi-banco utilizado por el grupo.
Los bombardeos ejecutados por la Fuerza Aérea israelí alcanzaron varios activos y bóvedas de la institución, de acuerdo con el comunicado militar. La semana pasada, las fuerzas israelíes atacaron cerca de 30 activos de la entidad financiera en distintas zonas del Líbano.
El ejército israelí indicó que antes de los ataques emitió advertencias de evacuación a civiles libaneses. Según las FDI, Hezbolá utiliza Al-Qard al-Hasan para almacenar dinero, administrar salarios de sus agentes, transferir fondos desde Irán y comprar armas.
Turquía desplegó un sistema antimisiles en el centro del país luego de haber interceptado un misil iraní en su espacio aéreo
Turquía informó este martes el despliegue de un sistema de defensa antimisiles Patriot en el centro del país, un día después de que la OTAN interceptó un segundo misil balístico lanzado desde Irán que cruzó el espacio aéreo turco.
“Se están tomando las medidas necesarias para la seguridad de nuestras fronteras y espacio aéreo, y se mantienen consultas con la OTAN y nuestros aliados. Además de las medidas adoptadas a nivel nacional, la OTAN reforzó sus medidas de defensa aérea y antimisiles”, indicó el Ministerio de Defensa en un comunicado. “Dentro de este marco, un sistema Patriot asignado para apoyar la protección de nuestro espacio aéreo se despliega en Malatya”.
Malatya se ubica en el centro de Turquía y alberga la base aérea de Kurecik, una instalación clave operada por tropas estadounidenses que cuenta con un radar de alerta temprana de la OTAN capaz de detectar lanzamientos de misiles iraníes.
El despliegue del sistema Patriot ocurrió un día después de que la OTAN derribó un segundo misil iraní, lo que llevó a Washington a cerrar su consulado en la ciudad sureña de Adana y a instar a los ciudadanos estadounidenses a abandonar el sudeste de Turquía.

Las acciones asiáticas se recuperaron el martes tras las fuertes caídas registradas el día anterior, en un contexto marcado por la volatilidad de los precios del petróleo y las expectativas de los inversores sobre la duración de la guerra con Irán. El movimiento se produjo mientras inversores globales apostaban a que el conflicto podría no durar demasiado.
El régimen de Irán atacó una base militar estadounidense en Irak
La Guardia Revolucionaria de Irán dijo el martes que atacó una base estadounidense en la región del Kurdistán iraquí mientras continúa la guerra con Estados Unidos e Israel.
“El cuartel general del ejército invasor estadounidense en la base aérea de Al-Harir, en la región del Kurdistán, fue atacado con cinco misiles”, dijeron los Guardias en un comunicado en su canal de Telegram.

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Irán, Abbas Araqchi, afirmó el martes que su país continuará los ataques “el tiempo que sea necesario”, en medio de la escalada militar en Medio Oriente y después de que el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, asegurara que el conflicto terminaría “muy pronto”. El jefe de la diplomacia del régimen iraní también descartó retomar negociaciones con Washington y acusó a ambos países de atacar infraestructuras civiles en territorio iraní.
El portavoz del Ejército de Israel, Effie Defrin, afirmó el lunes que la fuerza aérea israelí mató a más de 1.900 soldados y comandantes del régimen iraní desde el inicio de la guerra entre ambos países, que ya supera una semana de enfrentamientos. El vocero también informó que Israel completó ataques contra seis aeródromos militares en Irán y sostuvo que la ofensiva aérea continuará.
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