The Taliban has released a video of the controversial prisoner exchange, where Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to US forces after five years in captivity in Afghanistan.

The video shows Bergdahl sitting in a pick-up truck surrounded by Taliban fighters, before being escorted onto a US military helicopter and evacuated.

Bergdahl was released by the Taliban in return for five Taliban fighters being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay, and is now receiving treatment in a US military hospital in Germany.

The deal has caused much controversy in the US, where Republicans have warned that it could put American lives at risk as it shows that the US would negotiate with kidnappers.

Moreover, some of those who served with Bergdahl have called him a deserter, and say that he did not deserve the special treatment and exchange for such high profile detainees.

The US military has said that they will review the circumstances of Bergdahl’s abduction in 2009, and top officials have warned that he could be court martialed if it was found that he had abandoned his post and deserted as some have claimed.

The footage shows him sitting in a pick-up truck, before being walked to a helicopter in Khost province.

The top-ranking US military officer, Gen Martin Dempsey, also raised the possibility that the soldier could be prosecuted if he had abandoned his post before his seizure.

Sgt Bergdahl, from Hailey, Idaho, is in a stable condition in a military hospital in Germany.