The risk of blowback for links to American military activity has unnerved some of Washington’s Arab allies, causing the Pentagon to move aircraft to al-Udeid, a major U.S. air base in Qatar ...

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George Glezmann, an American citizen who has spent more than two years in detention in Afghanistan was released on Thursday ...

George Glezmann received a warm welcome as he arrived in the U.S. after more than two years in Taliban captivity in a release that was secured by U.S. and Qatari officials.