Caitlan Coleman

In October 2012, Canadian-American couple Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman were kidnapped in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip through Central and South Asia. They were held by the Haqqani network until October 2017 when they were rescued by Pakistani forces in Kurram Agency, Pakistan. During their captivity, Coleman gave birth to three children.

Joshua Boyle was born in Breslau, Ontario to Linda and Patrick J. Boyle. He attended Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener, Ontario, and graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2005. Following the September 11 attacks Boyle became interested in human rights issues and the case of Omar Khadr, a Canadian held in Guantanamo Bay. Boyle believed that Khadr was innocent, and spent several years acting as the spokesman for the Khadr family. Through his work with Khadr, Boyle met and eventually married Omar's sister Zaynab in 2009, but they divorced in 2010.

Caitlan Coleman was born in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania.

Boyle and Coleman met online as teenagers as mutual fans of the Star Wars franchise, and were married in 2011. After their marriage they spent time travelling in Central America before moving to Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, where Boyle worked as a municipal clerk. In July 2012 the two began travelling through Russia and Central Asia, planning on travelling through the "safe '-stans". For unknown reasons the couple crossed into Afghanistan in October; Boyle has stated it was to help "ordinary villagers" while other accounts indicate a more spontaneous decision.

On 8 October 2012 Boyle sent an email to his parents saying that he and Coleman were in an "unsafe" part of Afghanistan. Soon after, the pair were captured by members of the Haqqani network. Coleman was pregnant at the time of their capture. The first ransom video of the couple was released in early 2013. The Haqqani network demanded the release of prisoners in exchange for the release of Boyle and Coleman. It was also revealed that Coleman had given birth to her child, a boy.

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