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Now 3, “Baby L.” lives with a U.S. Marine and his wife, but her Afghan family claims she was taken under false pretenses. A court may soon decide.

A war orphan is claimed by two families: her Afghan relatives and a U.S. Marine who adopted her from 7,000 miles away. Who gets to keep the child?

The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid that killed her parents and five siblings.

The couple, once they arrived in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the marine and his wife, accusing them of stealing their child during the chaotic evacuation.

A war orphan is claimed by two families: her Afghan relatives and a U.S. Marine who adopted her from 7,000 miles away. An Associated Press investigation pieces together the story of the child, as a judge in a tiny Virginia town decides who gets to keep her.

They were surprised when Mast presented an Afghan passport for the child, the couple said. But it was the last name printed on the document that stopped them cold: Mast.

An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. The baby was injured in a U.S.

The couple, once they arrived in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the marine and his wife, accusing them of stealing their child during the chaotic evacuation.

Joshua Mast allegedly submitted a doctored passport for the baby and then claimed the child as his own after convincing the family to travel to the U.S. for medical care.

U.S. Marine Joshua Mast helped the family flee Afghanistan during the chaotic troop withdrawal. Then, once on U.S. soil, he abducted the child, court records...