George Glezmann, an American citizen who has spent more than two years in detention in Afghanistan was released on Thursday and is now on his way to the United States, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban.

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed US citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal brokered by Qatar, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced. "Today, after two and a half years of captivity in Afghanistan,