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Israel has throughout its history been targeted by hostage-taking in standoffs resolved by both force and diplomacy, but the mass seizure of citizens by...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross is in contact with Hamas and Israel to try to facilitate the release of hostages taken into...
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Dozens of foreigners have been killed, injured or taken hostage during a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has...
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An armed customer threatening to set himself ablaze held bank workers hostage throughout the day Thursday in Lebanon’s capital, demanding to withdraw his trapped...
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The rabbi of a Texas synagogue that was the scene of a hostage stand-off recounted how he threw a chair at the gunman.
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Three Chinese nationals kidnapped in Mali in July escaped their captors at the weekend and were rescued by security forces on Monday, the Sahel...
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French aid worker Sophie Petronin was reunited with her family on home soil Friday, a day after being freed by insurgents in Mali who...
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Mali announced Thursday the release of an elderly French aid worker, two Italian captives and a top Malian politician, all believed to have been...
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The Taliban handed two Western hostages over to US forces in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, three years after they were abducted, in a swap for...
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A Taliban spokesman said Thursday the insurgents were still holding two Western hostages, as officials stayed tight-lipped over the outcome of an apparent prisoner...