Freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander returned this week to the Gaza border in IDF uniform and warned the Hamas terrorists who held him underground for 584 days that “you gave me hell — I’ll give you hell back,” saying his story “does not end with survival; it continues with service.”
The body of the last U.S. citizen kidnapped by Hamas, 19-year-old Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, was returned from Gaza for burial on Monday.
The father of Israeli-American hostage Itay Chen, who is among those who are believed to have been killed by Hamas on the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, is hoping for a “miracle” that his son is still alive.
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Matan Eshet, the cousin of Hamas hostage Evyatar David, said that Hamas has been given power “by seeing that the world believes their propaganda, saying there is not enough humanitarian aid getting into the Gaza Strip, while
Hamas issued a statement claiming it will release Edan Alexander, who is believed to be the last known living American being held hostage by the terrorist group, according to several reports.
An American defense contractor who was held hostage in Kuwait for 903 days has thanked President Donald Trump for his efforts in securing his release.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” U.S. Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler stated that there will be another American who has been held hostage who will be released on Wednesday and that while he can’t say who the person
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” U.S. Hostage Envoy Adam Boehler stated that there will be another detained American coming home on Wednesday, but wouldn’t elaborate on who it was or which country they were being released from. Boehler said, [relevant
The Italian government on Thursday summoned the Iranian ambassador to demand the release of journalist Cecilia Sala, who was arrested without due process or clear charges in Tehran on December 19.
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.
