This undated photo provided by the U.S. Justice Department shows Irek Hamidullin, a Russian captured by U.S. Army on Nov. 29, 2009, in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. The former Russian military officer who received a life sentence for leading a 2009 Taliban attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan was a soldier, not a criminal, and should have been treated as a lawful combatant, the man’s lawyer argued to a federal appeals court Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. But a Justice Department lawyer argued that Hamidullin, who led the attack on behalf of the Taliban and its terrorist organization ally, the Haqqani Network, was not entitled the protections given to prisoners of war. (U.S. Justice Department via AP)
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