New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released from captivity by rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region and is in good health despite the 19-month ordeal, Indonesian and New Zealand authorities said Saturday.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democrat vice presidential nominee, finally released a statement in response to the news that the bodies of six hostages, including one American citizen, had been discovered in a Hamas tunnel under Gaza after he previously dodged a question about the hostages.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, the American-Israeli hostage who lost his left hand when being abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on October 7, has been found dead in Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released photographs Tuesday of its rescue of hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
Ksenia Karelina, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Russia, pleaded guitly to “treason” after being left out of a prisoner swap deal.
The parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin spoke about a newly released video showing their son and other hostages being abducted on October 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists, stating that they hope it can serve as a “call of action.”
One of the Israeli hostages who was rescued by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) was reunited with her mother, who is terminally ill with cancer. Noa Argamani, 25, was one of the four hostages
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) announced they had killed a Hamas terrorist called “Ghoul” who had kidnapped female IDF soldier Cpl. Noa Marciano on October 7, 2023, during Hamas’s attack on Israel.
Three janitors claim the pro-Hamas insurrectionists at Columbia University temporarily held them hostage, reports Fox News.
The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations.
The dying mother of a young Israeli woman abducted by Palestinians during the October 7 massacre has issued a plea to President Joe Biden imploring help in releasing her daughter.
The parents of Naama Levy, a teenager and advocate for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence who was abducted on October 7 and was last seen covered in blood and being dragged by the hair by a Hamas terrorist, are calling on international organizations and countries to pressure the Palestinian terror group to release her.
An 18-hour hostage situation at the Hamburg Airport ended after police arrested a Turkish-speaking man, who allegedly kidnapped his four-year-old daughter.
The Pentagon on Monday did not deny a report that said roughly 2,000 U.S. troops were told to be “prepared to deploy” if needed to assist Israel in its war against Hamas.
A highly vulnerable 17-year-old girl with a debilitating muscle disorder and her father were abducted by Hamas terrorists.
The White House said on Wednesday that 17 Americans are currently unaccounted for or missing in Israel and “a number” of them have been taken hostage in Israel but that it had very little information about them.
The Israel Defense Forces rescued 48 hostages from the dining hall of Kibbutz Be’eri on Saturday, according to local reports.
(AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France’s envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission. The ambassador is living off “military rations”,
Ohio police officers opened fire on a couple who fled from police, hijacked a semi-truck, took the driver of the truck hostage, and led officers on a high speed chase.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is on scene at Caesars Palace Hotel where a possibly armed man is holding a woman hostage.
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons held a press conference Monday in which he showed video of a deputy shooting a 58-year-old alleged hostage taker who was armed with a knife.
A 21-year-old woman was shot dead Wednesday night after allegedly taking a Richland, Mississippi, Walmart customer service employee hostage.
A group of unidentified Nigerian terrorists released a video on Monday appearing to show hostages abducted from a passenger train attacked by the terror group on March 28, Africnews reported.
A man went to the Bronx to see a woman he connected with on Instagram but reportedly ended up gagged and on the brink of death, according to the New York Post.
A gunman held a hostage at the Amsterdam Apple Store demanded a ransom of €200mn in crypto before he was run over by a police car.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was taken hostage with two other Jews at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue by jihadist Malik Faisal Akram on Sunday, told the Jerusalem Post that Akram believed Jews control the world.
The Texas Synagogue attacker chillingly told his brother over the phone “we’re coming to f***ing America” to give Americans a “f***ing war”, shortly before he was shot dead by the FB
A Colombian nun kidnapped and held hostage by a Mali affiliate of Al-Qaeda in 2017 was recently freed, the office of the Malian presidency announced Sunday.
The top spokeswoman for a prominent Democrat senator reportedly disputed some of the reasons Secretary of State Antony Blinken provided this week for not clearing privately organized evacuation flights out of northern Afghanistan faster.
A Kern County SWAT Officer was shot and killed during a hostage rescue attempt Sunday afternoon in Wasco, California.
A hostage situation on Saturday at the Oklahoma County Jail ended when authorities said police shot and killed an inmate who held a correctional officer hostage.
Body cam footage from the Salt Lake City Police Department shows an alleged hostage taker with a knife to an innocent’s neck being shot dead by police.
The family of Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007 and has been held illegally by the regime since then despite numerous pleas for his release, said on Wednesday that U.S. officials believe he “died while in Iranian custody,” sometime prior to the deadly outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in Iran.
Police in Lancaster City, Ohio, have released video of the moment they shot a man as he was allegedly holding a pizza store manager hostage.
President Donald Trump said Friday the United States did not pay North Korea $2 million for American hostage Otto Warmbier’s hospital bills.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced the release of Danny Burch, an American citizen who has been held hostage in Yemen since 2017. Trump thanked the United Arab Emirates for assisting with Burch’s liberation and said his administration has now secured the freedom of 20 Americans held captive in various countries.
Reports indicate multiple individuals were shot in a SunTrust Bank hostage situation in Sebring, Florida, on Wednesday.
Washington Post writer Jason Rezaian, who was held prisoner in Iran from 2014 to 2016, testified against the Iranian government in U.S. federal court on Tuesday. Rezaian is suing Iran for committing “unlawful acts of terrorism, torture, hostage taking, and other torts” against him and his family and seeks a multimillion-dollar settlement.
PARIS (AFP) – A man who took two people hostage in central Paris was transferred to a psychiatric ward Wednesday, a day after the four-hour standoff in which he doused a woman in petrol and held a knife to her throat. The
A man, who has claimed to be armed with both a firearm and a bomb, has taken several people hostage on the rue des Petites-Écuries in the 10th arrondissement of Paris demanding to speak with the Iranian embassy.
