The United States has found the remains of Cydney Mizell, an American woman kidnapped in Afghanistan more than 15 years ago, American federal police announced.
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The aid worker employed by the Asian Life Development Foundation (ARDLF), a small NGO, was kidnapped along with her Afghan driver as she went to work.
“In 2008, Cydney Mizell, an aid worker, was kidnapped and killed in Afghanistan. Last year, after 15 years, Cydney’s remains were found, repatriated and given to her family,” the FBI said this week in a statement.
“No matter how much time has passed, the FBI and its state partners … are working on behalf of victims and their families to recover all American hostages and support families whose loved ones are being held captive or carried disappeared,” adds the text.
Federal police do not provide details on the efforts undertaken to find the remains, but they were recovered well after the withdrawal of American forces from the country in 2021.
That year, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, sweeping away the Afghan armed forces trained by Western military personnel.
American troops had to organize desperate evacuation operations at Kabul airport. More than 120,000 people had left the country, and many more were unable to get out.
The American withdrawal from Afghanistan put an end to the longest military intervention of the United States, launched in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
