American Dennis Coyle lands in Texas after over a year in Taliban captivity

Dennis Coyle, an American man held by the Taliban for more than a year without charges, landed Wednesday on American soil following his release Tuesday from Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.

Video and images showed the 64-year-old walking off a plane at a base in San Antonio, Texas, before embracing family members.

Coyle, an academic who spent nearly two decades working in Afghanistan, was taken from his home in Kabul in January 2025 by Taliban intelligence and held in near-solitary confinement...