Timothy Weeks, a 54-year-old English language teacher from Australia, who spent three and a half years in captivity in Afghanistan, died in Kabul on Wednesday. The Australian academic had been a lecturer at the American University in Kabul in 2016 when taken hostage by the Islamic Emirate along with an American colleague Kevin King. The prisoner-swap deal saw the two men released in exchange for three Islamic Emirate prisoners, including Anas Haqqani. According to a statement issued by the Islamic Emirate, Omar passed away in Kabul on Wednesday. He was very fond of Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate, and based on that he considered it best to live in Kabul,” the IEA said.