CNN: American Woman, Canadian Husband and Her 3 Children Freed After 5 Years as Taliban Hostages

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STARR: "Good morning to both of you. This news breaking overnight. The Pakistani army actually putting the first public word out that they were able to rescue this family of five. An American woman, Caitlin Coleman, 31 years old, her husband, Joshua Boyle. He is a Canadian. And their three small children. You see them there. All those children born in captivity. They were taken hostage by a terror group in the region known as the Haqqanis, often affiliated with the Taliban indeed. They were said to been -- that they were being held in Pakistan. What has happened is, over the last several days, the U.S. came into some intelligence that began to help pinpoint their location apparently with some accuracy because Pakistani security officials were able, by all accounts, to move in and rescue them. The case has been well known but not well publicized that this family had been held since 2012 when they were taken hostage. So it may be coming as a surprise to some people. But this is a family that U.S. intelligence had been tracking, had been looking for, along with the Canadians, obviously, trying to see if they could get any information on their location. Our understanding is, at this hour, that the family of five is still in Pakistan. Arrangements are being made. They will either potentially all be returned to the U.S., possibly to Canada, the husband's country of citizenship. All those details being worked out. But right now some extraordinary good news for these five people, these three small children born in captivity, an American woman and her Canadian husband. Back to you guys."