OTTAWA - A Canadian national who was held hostage by Afghan Taliban and was rescued by Pakistan Army in October was arrested in his home country on 15 charges including sexual assault, illegal confinement and issuing death threats. The charges against Joshua Boyle include eight counts of assault, ...

WASHINGTON - The CIA chief on Thursday rejected Pakistan's account that US-Canadian family was freed from Afghan militants' captivity when they were bringing them into Pakistan last week. Mike Pompeo, CIA director, stated this while talking to a Washington-based think tank, the Foundation for ...

NEW YORK - The US not only provided Pakistan intelligence about an American woman and her family held by the Haqqani Network, but also threatened that it may send in a team of Navy SEALs similar to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, if Islamabad did not respond to the information, according to a ...

PESHAWAR - A Taliban spokesman denied on Sunday accusations by a Canadian man that one of his children had been murdered and his wife raped while they were being held captive by militants who kidnapped them in Afghanistan in 2012. Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, were held by ...

TORONTO - An abducted US-Canadian family reached their homeland, Canada, after being freed by Pakistani forces earlier this week from the captivity of Taliban after five years. American Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, were kidnapped in 2012 by the Taliban-affiliated ...