PERSON: Joshua Boyle

In October 2012, Canadian-American couple Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman were kidnapped in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip through Central and South Asia. Joshua Boyle, a Canadian citizen, and his wife Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen born in York County, Pennsylvania, were held captive by the Taliban from October 2012 to October 2017. Their three children were born in capitivity.

On October 11, 2017, Pakistani forces located the family in Kurram Agency and rescued them, after receiving intelligence from the U.S. that the hostages were moved over the Afghan border into northwestern Pakistan that same day