ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban has released a video showing its fighters handing over captured American soldier Bowe Bergdahl to the U.S. military in an eastern province that borders Pakistan Saturday. The Taliban video shows U.S. Army Sgt. Bergdahl, waiting in a white pick-up truck surrounded by heavily armed Taliban fighters. Most of them have their […]
While in Poland on Tuesday, Pres. Barack Obama, defended the prisoner deal that freed US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at a news conference, saying, “we don’t leave soldiers behind… Whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he is held in captivity. Period. Full stop.” “That’s what every […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s government reacted in anger at President Barack Obama’s decision to release five Taliban detainees from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay into Qatar’s jurisdiction, in exchange for an American soldier who had been held by the Taliban for five years. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry said the U.S. decision was a potential breach of international […]
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stopped at Bagram Airfield Sunday on his way from Singapore to Brussels to thank U.S. troops for their service in Afghanistan and to share the intense gratification of freeing prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after nearly five years in captivity. Bergdahl went missing from his post in […]