Qatari and British diplomats with Barbie and Peter Reynolds as they prepare to depart Kabul to Doha on September 19. Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs

A British couple who had been held in detention by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and have flown out of the country, an official with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Friday.

Peter, 80, and Barbie Reynolds, who is in her mid-70s, were arrested by the Taliban from their home in Afghanistan’s Bamyan Province in February.

UN experts warned in July that they were “at risk of irreparable harm or even death” as their health had been “deteriorating rapidly.”

The pair have now been released in a Qatari mediated agreement after months of negotiations, the source said. It’s unclear why the couple were arrested.

They will

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