Taliban prevent Corbetts from spending 20th anniversary together

Published February 20, 2024 5:00am ET



A loving married couple with three children will spend their 20th wedding anniversary more than 6,000 miles away from one another — not by choice.

On Feb. 20, 2004, Anna and Ryan Corbett got married in New York before traveling to the United Kingdom and France on their honeymoon. They talked about redoing their honeymoon this February to celebrate two decades of marriage together. But Ryan Corbett can’t be with his wife or children this Tuesday because he’s been wrongfully detained, as determined by the State Department, by the Taliban in Afghanistan for more than a year and a half.

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