Kabul, Sept. 13 -- United States and Afghanistan's Taliban officials have agreed to carry out a prisoner exchange, after a rare talk with the authorities in Kabul, Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Saturday.

The talks involved Adam Boehler, the Trump administration's special envoy for hostage response, and Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special envoy for Afghanistan, who met with Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Al Jazeera reported.

Following the meeting, the office of Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Abdul Ghani Baradar, released a statement saying, "Adam Boehler, referring to the issue of detained citizens between Afghanistan and the United States, said that both countries will exchan...