US Citizen Abducted in Afghanistan

Pakistani army soldier stand guard on a border terminal in Ghulam Khan, a town in North Waziristan, on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, 2019. Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images

A U.S. citizen working as a contractor was kidnapped in the Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan in recent days, a U.S. official confirmed to CNN.

It is not known who the abductors are at this time.