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Family held in Afghanistan: A U.S.-Canadian couple taken hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network in 2012 now have two children born in captivity. The captors of Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, sent a video to Boyle’s parents in January showing a subdued and headscarved Coleman with a bearded Boyle holding their boys, 4 and 2; the family released the footage to the press last week to mark the fifth anniversary of the capture. The couple, avid travelers who met online, were seized by militants after crossing into Afghanistan on a backpacking trip.