WASHINGTON—
President Barack Obama, flanked by the parents of
a U.S. soldier released after being held for nearly five years by
the Taliban, said in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday that
the United States has an "ironclad commitment" to bring home its
prisoners of war.U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, has been released by the Taliban and is now in U.S. custody after years of on and off negotiations, officials said on Saturday.
Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bergdahl was flying to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest American hospital outside the United States. It is located close to Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
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Bergdahl is the only known American soldier held captive since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Last picture release by the Taliban dated November 2011.
