Overview

• Taliban authorities said Peter, 80, and Barbie Reynolds, 76, were released and handed to UK special representative Richard Lindsay at Kabul airport.
• A Qatari official said they will transit to Doha for medical examinations before repatriation to the United Kingdom.
• The pair were arrested on February 1 as they returned home, with UN experts later warning of eye infections, tremors and a rapid decline in health.
• Their daughter told CNN that Peter needs heart medication, and a recently freed American detainee told the BBC the couple were "literally dying" in prison.
• The couple have lived in Afghanistan for nearly two decades and hold Afghan citizenship, while Taliban officials have not detailed charges beyond asserting unspecified legal violations.