Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, marked 2026 Hostage Week by renewing calls for the release of Stephen Hubbard, the Idaho-connected American detained in Russia after being taken from eastern Ukraine during Moscow’s 2022 invasion.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that gives the U.S. more “tools” to free American hostages – while his administration has already recovered 72 in the first 8 months of his term.
President Donald Trump revealed that Edan Alexander, 21, who is believed to be the last living American hostage held by Hamas, was released and “coming home to his family.”
Faye Hall, an American woman who was being held in Afghanistan by the Taliban, has profusely thanked President Donald Trump after he negotiated her release last week with the support of Qatar.
The Hamas terrorist organization said Friday it will release a U.S.-Israeli dual national, believed to be the last living American hostage held in Gaza. The bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in brutal captivity will also be handed over.
President Donald Trump praised Richard Grenell, Trump’s Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, after six Americans being held hostage in Venezuela were released.
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered the “flags to be flown at half-staff” to honor Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, an American-Israeli hostage who was among the six bodies found dead in a tunnel underneath Gaza.
The continued detainment of Hamas-held American hostages in Gaza should be “the biggest scandal in the country,” according to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who was recently selected as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, accusing the Biden administration of reckless disregard over the pressing issue.
President Joe Biden is “playing politics” with the lives of Americans being held hostage by the Gaza-based terrorist Hamas group, according to Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. She slammed the 81-year-old Democrat leader for “playing into Hamas’s hands” and “making terrorists rejoice, instead of tremble in fear” by withholding support from the nation’s “greatest ally in the region,” Israel.
Cotton accused Biden of “placating the growing antisemitic faction” in his party instead of “helping an ally like Israel win this war.”
On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens responded to a question on whether deals brokered by the Biden administration will incentivize countries to take more hostages by stating that “I might say that my case numbers
The White House posted a photo on Instagram of President Joe Biden meeting with American troops in Israel without hiding the faces of the troops, potentially compromising their identities and safety.
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.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the death toll of Americans killed by Hamas in Israel on Saturday has risen to 25.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Israel, where an unknown number of Americans are being held by Hamas militants who have threatened to begin executing hostages.
The Biden White House was reportedly in the midst of hosting a barbecue, even as Americans were announced as among those confirmed killed or taken hostage during Hamas’ surprise attack over the weekend.
President Donald Trump welcomed Americans Kim Hak Song, Kim Dong Chul, and Kim Sang-Duk home to the United States at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland after they were released by their North Korean captors.
The government of Shiite powerhouse Iran has lambasted its American counterpart for sentencing an Iranian engineer with dual citizenship to more than eights years in prison for attempting to smuggle sensitive military documents to the Islamic Republic, various state-run news agencies reported.
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.
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.
Well over 30 years after he was set free from being held hostage for 444 days by his Middle Eastern captors, Texan Rick Kupke is still saying the Iranian regime cannot be trusted
The families of the four Americans currently being held hostage in Iran commented on the nuclear deal that the Shiite powerhouse reached with the U.S. and five other world powers.
