Kidnapped Canadian-American couple plead for their lives in new video

The couple told Circa News that they got a letter from Caitlan last November proving that she and Boyle were still alive, and announcing that she had given birth to a second son.

“We’re aware of recent reports that a video featuring USA hostage Caitlan Coleman and her husband Joshua Boyle has been released”, State Department spokesperson John Kirby said during a regular press conference Tuesday.

A Taliban spokesman says the video is not new and was recorded in 2015, adding that Boyle, Coleman and their two children remain in captivity and in good health.

State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was concerned about the welfare of the couple and their family and “continue to urge for their immediate release on humanitarian grounds”. Those videos were released around the time that Bergdahl was freed.

A website called Site Intelligence Group (SITE), which monitors extremist activity online, posted the video Tuesday.

In the video, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman sombrely warn they will be killed by their captors unless Kabul abandons its policy of executing captured prisoners. Two years ago, the Obama administration carried out a controversial prisoner swap of five Taliban commanders held at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt.

“The Government of Canada will not comment or release any information which may compromise or risk endangering the safety of Canadian citizens overseas”, O’Shaughnessy’s email read. A counterterrorism analyst studying the video said Coleman and Boyle appeared “out of it”.

But the Coleman family in rural Pennsylvania has not received any demands for ransom since her disappearance.

In the video, the scraggily bearded Boyle said the couple’s captors “are terrified of the thought of their own mortality approaching, and are saying that they will take reprisals on our family”.

The couple was kidnapped during a six-month backpacking trip that took them through Russia, Central Asia and ended in Afghanistan.

“I would tell you that the video is still being examined for its validity”.