The couple has appeared in several Taliban videos, although the newly released clip would be the first since 2013.
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The Colemans last saw their daughter in July 2012, when she set off for Russian Federation on a hiking trip with Boyle that took them through Central Asia and ultimately into war-torn Afghanistan.
The Afghan Taliban released a video where a Canadian man and his American wife are warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners. Coleman, who was pregnant at the time, has given birth to two boys while in captivity, ABC News reported earlier this year, citing her parents.
Otherwise, she says in the brief video, she, her husband and two children will be killed.
Joshua Boyle and Caitlin Coleman were kidnapped by militants in 2012 and are shown in propaganda footage calling for a change in the Afghan government’s policy on the execution of prisoners. In it, she told her family that she had given birth to a second child.
United States and Canadian officials have said they are aware of the video of Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were kidnapped in 2012 while on a backpacking trip.
“Thank you for sharing such wonderful news”.
“Our captors are terrified at the thought of their own mortality approaching and are saying that they will take reprisals on our family”, Boyle says in the video.
She also addressed her family, asking them to try to persuade the U.S.to get involved. “Please grant them an opportunity to continue their lives with us, and bring peace to their families”.
August 29 (ANI): A local court in Afghanistan has sentenced Taliban commander Sirajuddin Haqqani’s brother Anas Haqqani to death, reports said. “We desperately want to be with our daughter and hold our grandsons, who we long to meet and care for”.
Rashid is the brother of Mohammad Nabi Omari, one of the five Taliban prisoners that President Obama made a decision to trade for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who also had been a Haqqani prisoner.
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The United States said Tuesday it was still examining the video.
