Soldier Released After 5 Years
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Susan Rice Disregards Question About Whether Bergdahl Deserted Army: ?That?s Not the Point?
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U.S. Soldier Bowe Bergdahl Released by Taliban in Swap for Guantanamo Detainees
Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Saturday handed over Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held as a prisoner of war for almost five years, to U.S. Special Operations Forces in exchange for the release of five Afghan Taliban prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
The breakthrough was brokered by Qatar, which sent representatives to the U.S. military prison in Cuba to take custody of the five detainees, who used to be high-ranking members of the former Taliban government. The five were being flown to the small Gulf state where...
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Hagel Celebrates Bowe Bergdahl’s Release in Surprise Afghan Visit
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had departed for Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany eight hours before, but that did not stop Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel from taking a figurative victory lap around this base to celebrate the release of the lone remaining American prisoner of war in the Afghan conflict.
For Mr. Hagel, who made an unannounced stop in Afghanistan on Sunday, the release o
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