From NPR: “An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been freed after five years in captivity by an extremist group in Afghanistan.”

+ The couple was freed by the Pakistani military (although the details being shared don’t make a lot of sense). Another odd part of the story: “The US had a C-130 ready to fly the family out of Pakistan but the husband did not want the US-supplied transportation, the American officials told NBC News. It was not clear why they rejected the opportunity to immediately leave.”