KABUL—An American professor held hostage by the Taliban for more than a year is seriously ill and deteriorating rapidly, the militant group said Monday, in a bid to pressure the Trump administration to negotiate his release. The professor, Kevin King, and an Australian colleague, Tim Weeks, were kidnapped in the Afghan capital Kabul in August 2016 by five Taliban gunmen wearing government military uniforms as they traveled in a sport-utility vehicle near the campus of the American University of Afghanistan, where both taught...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 30, 2017 15:27 UTC