
Sep 30 - By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer
The troops hunting for the young private have little to go on: He disappeared near the border with Pakistan, his Taliban captors released a propaganda video of him two weeks later, downcast and frightened. Then, at least publicly, nothing about the only U.S. soldier missing in the Afghan war.

Sep 9 - By Diaa Hadid, Associated Press Writer
An Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants more than three years ago described his captivity as an "intolerable and inhumane nightmare" in a handwritten 2006 letter to his parents made public on Wednesday.

Aug 9 - By Ishtiaq Mahsud, STR
A militant commander who is holding a U.S. soldier abducted in Afghanistan said Sunday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar's council is waiting for a response to its demands before deciding the American's fate.
Jul 20 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Text of statement released Monday by family of Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan:

Jul 19 - By John Miller, Associated Press Writer
The Pentagon said Monday that troops are "sparing no effort" to find an American soldier captured by the Taliban as his family pleaded for privacy and residents in his hometown tied yellow ribbons on trees along Main Street in a show of solidarity.

Jul 19 - By John Miller, Associated Press Writer
A soldier from Idaho who disappeared from his base in Afghanistan has been captured, the Pentagon confirmed Sunday, a day after he was seen in a Taliban video posted online.

Jul 19 - By Pamela Hess, Associated Press Writer
The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that an American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment.

Jul 19 - By Pamela Hess, Associated Press Writer
The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured. The Defense Department said in a statement Sunday that the soldier is Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. The statement also says his status is now classified as missing-captured, rather than whereabouts unknown.

Jul 19 - By Pamela Hess, Associated Press Writer
The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, said in a video posted by the Taliban that he's "scared I won't be able to go home."
Jul 18 - By Pamela Hess, Associated Press Writer
The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a Web site by the Taliban.
Jul 8 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press Writer
Egypt's president didn't know what he was talking about when he said an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants was alive and well, a top Hamas official announced Wednesday, in rare public criticism of the Egyptian leader.
Jul 6 - By Associated Press
Hamas TV in Gaza has broadcast a short animated movie mocking an Israeli soldier captured by the militant Islamic group three years ago.
Jul 6 - By Associated Press
The Taliban confirmed on its Web site that it is holding an American soldier that the U.S. military had earlier described as possibly being in enemy hands.
Jul 2 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Jul 2 - By Fisnik Abrashi, Associated Press Writer
An American soldier is feared captured by insurgents after he walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan without body armor and weapons, officials said Thursday.
Jun 9 - By Associated Press
Authorities say two convicts who escaped a Louisiana prison last October were recaptured while trying to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico.

Mar 9 - By Josef Federman, Associated Press Writer
A protest tent set up outside the prime minister's home by the family of a captive Israeli soldier has become an unofficial pilgrimage site this week, attracting Cabinet ministers, Holocaust survivors and schoolchildren from across Israel.
Aug 14 - By Associated Press
County wildlife control agents have evicted a neighbor of the Clintons — a 3-foot alligator fished from a pond in the tony New York suburb where the couple live.

Aug 12 - By Douglas Birch, Associated Press Writer
Gutted and shrapnel-scarred buildings testify to fierce street battles and heavy rocket and bomb attacks in the separatist capital of South Ossetia. But there is little evidence civilians were specifically targeted by Georgian troops, as Russia claims.
Jul 9 - By Associated Press
A German cargo ship held captive for 41 days off the coast of Somalia was released and all aboard were safe and unharmed, a shipping company said Wednesday. A Somali official said the pirates received a large ransom.
Jun 21 - By Associated Press
Israel's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against the truce in Gaza, filed by the father of a soldier captured two years ago.

Jun 9 - By Steve Weizman, Associated Press Writer
An Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants for almost two years pleaded for his life in his latest letter home and begged his government to intensify efforts to win his release, his father told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Jun 5 - By Associated Press
An animal control officer didn't let the big one get away: He used a fishing rod to catch an alligator spotted at a golf facility.

May 4 - By Bradley S. Klapper, Associated Press Writer
The sister-in-law of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a dingy dungeon and fathering seven children with her said he treated his family like a "tyrant."

Mar 5 - By Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer
Two French lawyers with experience negotiating international crises said Wednesday they plan to visit Gaza in an independent initiative by the family of an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas militants.