
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, claims that unnamed Americans have tried to arrange a prisoner swap to secure the freedom of captive Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
by John Hayward4 Jan 2016, 9:20 PM PST0

Kidnapped American Robert Levinson’s son Daniel penned an op-ed for the Washington Post over the weekend, in which he warned those who would visit Iran in pursuit of business opportunities created by the nuclear deal to exercise extreme caution. “My family and I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous traveling to Iran remains,” Daniel Levinson wrote.
by John Hayward21 Dec 2015, 4:11 PM PST0

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign offered public support to the cause of freeing American hostages in Iran.
by Patrick Howley3 Dec 2015, 5:19 PM PST0

The Islamic State announced the murder of two hostages in the latest issue of its Dabiq magazine, Fan Jinghui of China and Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad of Norway.
by John Hayward19 Nov 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

Iran state-media outlets are reporting that Iran has begun to blockade imports from the United States.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Nov 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

As Iranian Dictator Ali Khamenei led the commonly-heard “Death To America” chants in Tehran on Tuesday, he argued that “Death to America” does not really mean what it sounds like.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Nov 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

The video below was released by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council. Its opening moments offer helmet-cam footage from the rescue of some 70 hostages from the ISIS prison near Hawija, Iraq.
by John Hayward27 Oct 2015, 7:37 PM PST0

More details have emerged about the raid against an ISIS prison camp near Hawija, Iraq, where a joint American-Kurdish-Iraqi strike force rescued seventy prisoners who were about to be executed and dumped in mass graves.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:44 AM PST0

The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an American soldier was killed during a mission to rescue Kurdish hostages from ISIS near the Iraqi town of Hawija.
by John Hayward22 Oct 2015, 11:40 AM PST0

The Iranian government has convicted hostage American reporter Jason Rezaian of “espionage” in an outrageous secret trial.
by John Hayward12 Oct 2015, 8:33 AM PST0

The Islamic State has released a videotaped execution of three Assyrian Christian hostages, captured during a February offensive in Syria. The lives of hundreds more Christian captives remain in the balance, a point the savages emphasized by making three of them beg for ransom payments on camera.
by John Hayward8 Oct 2015, 9:31 PM PST0

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Sunday that his regime in Tehran would consider releasing three Americans held hostage in the country if the U.S. would release several jailed Iranians.
by Jordan Schachtel28 Sep 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

Sky News reported last week that Iran has released five senior al-Qaeda operatives, including several possible successors to Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the organization, in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Yemen earlier this year.
by John Hayward21 Sep 2015, 8:16 AM PST0

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels have released six foreign hostages, including two Americans, and flown them to the Gulf country of Oman, which helped negotiate their release, officials said Sunday.
by AP21 Sep 2015, 7:19 AM PST0

On Thursday, police tracked an armed carjacker on a high-speed chase. He took hostages at a BBQ restaurant and was later killed.
by Michelle Moons11 Sep 2015, 5:12 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES: Several people were being held hostage in a Downey restaurant late on Thursday after an suspected carjacker blocked himself inside the building following a police chase, law enforcement and media reported.
by Breitbart News10 Sep 2015, 9:15 PM PST0

The latest issue of the ISIS online magazine, Dabiq, includes photos of two men it claims to have taken hostage, and provides a telegram number for “whoever would like to pay the ransom” for their release.
by John Hayward10 Sep 2015, 11:01 AM PST0

Yemeni Houthi jihadists have reportedly taken a number of Americans hostage in Yemen as they fight to take control of the country, the U.S. State Department confirmed Monday, and one of the American captives has been identified.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Sep 2015, 4:20 PM PST0

The U.S.-backed unit of moderate Syrian rebels effectively disintegrated, following several kidnappings by the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front. The group has agreed to release 7 of its prisoners, in an announcement in which the freed refer to the al-Qaeda thugs as brothers.
by John Hayward17 Aug 2015, 12:27 PM PST0

The Egyptian branch of ISIS has kidnapped a 30-year-old Croatian named Tomislav Salopek, who was in Egypt on business as an employee of French geology firm CGG, and is threatening to murder him within 48 hours if the Egyptian government does not release Muslim women from its jails. It is not clear exactly which Muslim women the terrorist group wants freed, as there is no shortage of them in Egyptian prisons, following the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood.
by John Hayward6 Aug 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

The Nigerian army announced Sunday night that it succeeded in freeing 178 Boko Haram hostages, including 101 children, captured a commander of the radical Islamist group, and destroyed several rebel camps during a military operation.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Aug 2015, 5:34 AM PST0

Nigeria liberated 71 people held hostage by ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram jihadists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, including 66 women and children, according to the country’s military.
by Edwin Mora2 Aug 2015, 5:57 PM PST0

Washington, D.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the featured speaker Thursday at a rally outside of the White House demanding Iran release four Americans taken hostage by the regime in Tehran.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Jul 2015, 3:31 PM PST0

During his speech to the VFW convention today, President Obama called for the release of U.S. citizens wrongfully imprisoned in Iran, but botched the last name of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian.
by Charlie Spiering21 Jul 2015, 10:04 AM PST0

“We think that this is a moment where Iran has a really important opportunity to make a humanitarian gesture and bring the Americans home,” a senior White House official explained to reporters during a conference call on Tuesday. He insisted that the U.S. government was doing “whatever we possibly can” to bring the detained and missing Americans home.
by Charlie Spiering16 Jul 2015, 8:22 AM PST0