Where is the group, that held captive Bowe Bergdahl, based?
Bowe Bergdahl Robert Bowdrie "Bowe" Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan after deserting his station from June 2009 until his release in May 2014. The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing and how he was captured by the Taliban have since become subjects of intense media scrutiny.
Ansaru Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Lands (Arabic: جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان‎ ‎ "Jamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān "), better known as Ansaru or Al Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, is an Islamist jihadist militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria. It is a splinter group of the larger Boko Haram organisation, founded in January 2012, and reportedly has more of an international focus than the latter. As of 2013, the group stopped addressing itself as Al Qaeda in the lands beyond the Sahel, and changed its name to Ansaru.