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In the 1979 hostage crisis, why did Iran free 10 Black Americans before the others?

Sgt James Hughes was one of the hostages released early. With US-Iran relations once again in the spotlight, he talks about being ‘handcuffed, under armed guard’Since the United St...

Iran and Its Terrorist Proxies Start Freeing Western Hostages

Iran-backed Shiite militants in Iraq released captive American journalist Shelly Kittleson, and Iran released two French nationals. The post Iran and Its Terrorist Proxies Start Fr...

Global Hostages

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Iranian family detained for relative's key role in 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis seeks release

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Iranian family that’s been living in the United States for a decade is demanding their release from immigration detention after they were arrest...

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

Since 1979, Iran has repeatedly used Americans and Europeans detained on its territory to win concessions over more powerful adversaries.

US arrests Iranian family tied to 1979 Iran hostage crisis at US embassy

Seyed Eissa Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, the infamous spokeswoman for the Islamist militants who overran the US Embassy in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis.

American journalist released after being kidnapped in Iraq

US rescues aviator whose fighter jet was shot down in Iran

Iran showed no signs of backing down, striking economic and infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries.

After three years as Iran’s hostage, the taxman came knocking

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — There’s no escape from the tax collector. At least that’s what Benjamin Brière must have felt after his return from three and half years as a ho...

Exclusive -- Dr. Gorka: Trump Administration Already Has Set Record for American Hostages Liberated at 106

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Dr. Sebastian Gorka talked about hostages. Gorka said, “106 hostages, American citizens have been liberated and brought home to the United State...

After three years as Iran’s hostage, the taxman came knocking

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — There’s no escape from the tax collector. At least that’s what Benjamin Brière must have felt after his return from three and half years as a ho...

After three years as Iran’s hostage, the taxman came knocking

By Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — There’s no escape from the tax collector. At least that’s what Benjamin Brière must have felt after his return from three and half years as a ho...

Caught in the crossfire: The American highschoolers who stayed behind to help amid the Iran war

Nadav, along with roughly 60 other teens on the trip, decided to stay in Israel during the war, joining agricultural nonprofit Hiburim B’Haklau to aid farmers affected by the war.

Jewish groups urge Trump to prioritize Americans held in Iran during ceasefire talks

(JTA) — The American Jewish Committee is calling on President Donald Trump to make the return of Americans in Iranian custody an “urgent national priority,” as his administration w...

What to know about the daring rescue of two U.S. aviators shot down in Iran

The U.S. pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction...

Hostages of the Hormuz standoff

The confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz is like a hostage situation in which neither side cares about the fate of the hostages.

American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad by Iranian proxy

The Iran-backed terror group Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shiite militia, kidnapped American journalist Shelly Kittleson in downtown Baghdad on March 31. The US government had previo...

American Pilot Shot Down Over Iran Rescued

A great thing, precipitated by a questionable thing.

Trump, Iran’s Newest Hostage

The president is buried in the graveyard of vanity.

U.S. Moves to Deport Son of Prominent Figure in Iranian Revolution

Federal agents arrested a man whose mother served as a spokeswoman for the Islamist embassy captors during the hostage crisis that began in 1979.

How the Amazing Rescue of Two American Airmen Unfolded

'I feel like we failed' to bring Gaza hostages home, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells CBS's 60 Minutes

"What we were fighting for did happen. We got all these people home, not the way we wanted. We wanted them home, alive, but they had come home," she told Anderson Cooper.

The U.S. Deported Them to Iran Just Before American Bombs Started Falling

Trump’s State Department told Americans to avoid Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine, South Sudan and other nations where the U.S. simultaneously deported people.

Iraqi Kidnappers of Journalist Shelly Kittleson Offer to Negotiate

The Iranian-aligned militia, Kataib Hezbollah, is pressing for the release of members detained by the Iraqi government in exchange for freeing the journalist, Shelly Kittleson.