A Taliban video released on Tuesday appears to show US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, captured in Afghanistan in June 2009, the IntelCenter monitoring group said on Wednesday.
"The video contains a brief portion of new footage of someone that appears to be US soldier Bowe Bergdahl," a statement from IntelCenter said.
Someone who appears to be Taliban commander Maulawi Sangin, who had threatened to kill Bergdahl in the weeks after his capture, was also in the video, it said.
The Pentagon said it was not clear when the video — which shows a clean-shaven Bergdahl with a close-cropped military haircut — was made.
"As we've said in the past when there have been similar types of video released, we deplore the fact that the Taliban is using him in that way, in releasing footage," Colonel Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said.
He added that the military was trying to recover Bergdahl but did not know where he was being held.
Bergdahl went missing from his base in Afghanistan's Paktika province near the Pakistan border and his capture was announced on June 30, 2009.
He has already appeared in three previous Taliban videos, including one released in April 2010 that showed him heavily bearded and wearing a US Army jacket, pleading for his release.
A Taliban spokesman at the end of that video reiterated demands for "a limited number" of prisoners to be released in exchange for the soldier.
Bergdahl was the first US soldier to be captured in Afghanistan since the start of the US-led, NATO-backed military action to oust the hardline Taliban regime in late 2001.
He said in an earlier video that he was captured when he fell behind his unit in southeastern Afghanistan.
There have been claims that he has been taken to neighboring Pakistan, where the Taliban are also waging an insurgency, but the militants have said they are keeping him in Afghanistan.
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