{"id":6256,"date":"2026-02-07T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/07\/azerbaijan-frees-14-afghan-prisoners-taliban-diplomatic-efforts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:15:18","slug":"azerbaijan-frees-14-afghan-prisoners-taliban-diplomatic-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/07\/azerbaijan-frees-14-afghan-prisoners-taliban-diplomatic-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Releases 14 Afghan Prisoners Following Taliban Diplomatic Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the release of 14 Afghan prisoners in the Republic of Azerbaijan, ordered by the country&#8217;s leadership. According to the ministry, this action resulted from persistent follow-ups by the Afghan embassy in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that the release of these prisoners was made possible by special directives from the Taliban administration and diplomatic efforts by Afghanistan\u2019s representation in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed gratitude to the government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and its relevant institutions for their cooperation and what it described as a &#8220;humanitarian act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also emphasized that efforts to pursue and resolve the cases of other Afghan prisoners abroad will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan frees 14 Afghan prisoners after diplomatic efforts by the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Afghan embassy in Baku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}