Hostage situation? Goldbelt-chartered plane still pinned to tarmac as Taliban, State Department negotiate terms

Six jets are said to be still stuck at the airport in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city. The Taliban will not allow them to exit, the State Department says, and now word is the State Department is telling countries not to take the planes, which contain an unknown number of Americans who have been stuck on … Continue reading Hostage situation? Goldbelt-chartered plane still pinned to tarmac as Taliban, State Department negotiate terms