{"id":280094,"date":"2025-09-20T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/british-couple-held-by-taliban-arrive-in-uk-after-release-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:05:01","slug":"british-couple-held-by-taliban-arrive-in-uk-after-release-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/british-couple-held-by-taliban-arrive-in-uk-after-release-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple held by Taliban arrive in UK after release | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/rXpcE6uzpjQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"British couple held by Taliban arrive in UK after release | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXpcE6uzpjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for nearly eight months have arrived back in the UK after being released.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76, who lived in Afghanistan for nearly two decades, landed at Heathrow Airport, on a flight from Doha.<\/p>\n<p>They were reunited with their daughter in Qatar on Friday. Their son Jonathan Reynolds told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme that he was &quot;ecstatic and massively grateful&quot; to those who were involved in securing their release.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, who detained the couple on 1 February, said the pair had broken Afghan laws and were released after judicial proceedings &#8211; but the Islamist group has never disclosed a reason for their detention.<\/p>\n<p>Peter and Barbie Reynolds married in Kabul in 1970 and spent the past 18 years running a charitable training programme that had been approved by local Taliban officials when the armed group reclaimed power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#UK #Afghanistan #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for nearly eight months have arrived back in the UK after being released. 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