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Hostage Diplomacy 2.0: Accredited Envoys Are the New Targets

There is a terrifying evolution occurring in how rogue states leverage foreign nationals, and Europe is currently entirely unequipped to…Continue reading on Medium »

Hostage families became a political prize. But not for the party that championed their cause

The largely anti-Netanyahu campaign to bring captives home turned hostage relatives into some of Israel's most recognizable public figures. When election season came, many found th...

Brett McGurk chronicles negotiations to free Oct. 7 hostages in 'Brink'

Brett McGurk served under four presidential administrations, ultimately working as President Biden's lead on foreign policy in the Middle East. During that time, Hamas attacked Isr...

October 7 hostage details Gaza hell at hands of Hamas kidnappers

Avinatan Or said his captors 'took everything for him' during his 738 days in Hamas captivity after being taken from the Nova music festival on October 7 2023.

Inside American Hostage real-life events of new 'harrowing' true crime drama

A "high-stakes" kidnapping had the US on tender hooks as the culprit demanded to be on a live radio show.

IDF kills Hamas commander who held several former Israeli hostages in Gaza City strikes

The former hostages Yazji held captive include Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Matan Angrest.

On This Day: Final living hostages return from Gaza, as Trump addresses Knesset following ceasefire

Additionally, the remains of four murdered hostages, Yossi Sharabi, Guy Illouz, Bipin Joshi, and Captain Daniel Peretz, were returned to Israel that evening for burial.

Dead Bodyguards, Live Prisoner: Israel Snatch-And-Grabs Hamas’s Secret Police Boss

Troops deal blow to kidnappers, rescue 15 victims, arrest two

The intervention forced the attackers to abandon a victim who had sustained gunshot wounds before fleeing the area. The victim was subsequently evacuated to the General Hospital, G...

Troops rescue 23 hostages, nab four suspected terrorists in Sokoto offensives

Giving details of the operations, Danja said troops responded to distress call on terrorists' attack call in Sabon Gari, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto where the attackers i...

13 hostages, including 6 children, freed by Haitian gang following murder spree

Thirteen hostages — including six children and seven women — have been freed by a Haitian gang following a murderous rampage that left 47 dead and more than 50 others abducted in a...

Inside the Final Push To Free the October 7 Hostages

The negotiations had dragged on for nearly a year. Then, with just weeks left in the Biden administration, Brett McGurk joined forces with Steve Witkoff to make one last push to br...

American Israeli held hostage by Hamas performs songs of survival and hope

Recently, the small Israeli town of Nir Oz, devastated by the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, held a unique concert. The singer was not a professional musician, but an American Israeli m...

Troops Rescue 3 Kidnap Victims in Katsina Operation

A tense security operation along a major Katsina road has ended with three kidnap victims walking free after troops moved in following a distress alert.

Haiti gang frees 13 women and children days after raid that killed at least 47 people

A gang in Haiti has freed thirteen hostages, including women and children, following a brutal assault. UNICEF played a crucial role in securing their release from a farming communi...

CAR: Former hostages greeted by President Touadéra on return to Bangui

In Central African Republic, three hostages released this week after 10 months in captivity arrived in Bangui aboard a special UN flight. A local government official and two member...

IDF says it killed Hamas commander involved in holding seven hostages

Netanyahu says Israel released Lebanese civilians in exchange for information on slain Jewish leaders

The Israeli military has yet to respond to Haaretz's inquiries on how long the civilians, whom Israeli forces captured in occupied parts of Lebanon and who weren't suspected of ter...

Denham Springs man arrested after holding adults and child hostage

DENHAM SPRINGS — A Denham Springs man was arrested on multiple aggravated assault charges after threatening harm against himself and others in a Conifer Drive home.Living...

At least eight ADF hostages released in DR Congo’s Ituri, 30 still missing

At least eight people kidnapped by Allied Democratic Forces rebels have been released in the Teturi area of Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo but at least 30 o...

Soldiers rescue woman as terrorists flee ransom exchange

Nigerian troops successfully rescued a kidnapped woman in Kebbi State after disrupting a planned ransom exchange, forcing terrorists to flee. Read More: https://punchng.com/soldie...

‘Natives of the Country’

On March 29, 1985, Elie Hallak, a fifty-eight-year-old physician and the vice president of Lebanon’s Jewish Communal Council (Conseil communal israélite libanais), was abducted fro...

Former hostage Omer Shem Tov recalls loneliness, hunger, abuse during Hamas captivity

“It bothers me when people tell me I’m a hero,” Shem Tov said of his release from captivity. “I don’t think I’m a hero. This was a reality that was forced on me."

Escape attempt, torture, captivity mindset: Avinatan Or details life as a Gaza hostage

The 30-year-old Israeli was kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7. He reveals in a Uvda interview how he devised a plan to escape from a tunnel and what he thought of his p...