 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have released video purportedly showing a captured allied soldier -- a dog soldier that is, believed by Pentagon officials to be a British military service pup captured during a raid last December. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 "We can confirm that a military working dog went missing following an ISAF mission in December, 2013," the U.S.-led International Assistance Security Force said in a statement. Pentagon officials told Fox News they believe the dog is actually a British military service dog, not an American canine. Also featured in the video are two M-4 assault rifles with scopes that are commonly used by special operations forces in Afghanistan. Sayed Salahuddin in Kabul contributed to this report.
– A new Taliban video shows what might be the world's first canine POW. In the video, the militants claim to have captured a military service dog during a battle with American forces in Afghanistan's Laghman province in December, reports the Washington Post. Both ABC and Fox News quote Pentagon sources as saying the dog actually belongs to another nation in the US-led coalition force, perhaps Britain. The dog is seen on a chain, outfitted with the electronic gear it wore during the raid, say the Taliban. “I don’t remember seeing a dog used as a hostage,” says the founder of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors such propaganda. The dog is believed to be a Belgian Malinois, a breed favored by special ops troops for its prowess in sniffing out explosives during raids. A spokesman for the coalition force confirms that a dog went missing during a December operation.