hostages

August 16, 2021

Iran’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ traps foreign nationals

The 67-year-old German-Iranian activist Nahid Taghavi is still in detention after being arrested in the Iranian capital in October 2020. Last…

April 8, 2021

Last summer, two US officials ventured into hostile territory for a secret high-stakes meeting with American adversaries. The Syrian government…

January 30, 2021

Libyan sources confirmed that 38 Egyptian citizens are being held hostage near the Bani Walid city in western Libya. The…

October 11, 2020

CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan armed group is holding hostage at least 60 migrants, including two dozen children, in “appalling”…

November 4, 2019

The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain…

January 21, 2019

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A former CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six US diplomats from Iran in 1980…

August 20, 2018

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban ambushed a convoy of busses Monday on a road in northern Afghanistan and took…

August 5, 2018

Islamic State in Syria has executed one of a number of hostages taken from Syria’s government-held city of Sweida…

July 30, 2018

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces are pressing their offensive in the country’s south despite threats by the Islamic State…

March 23, 2018

An armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing two and injuring about a dozen…