A wildlife camp owned by soccer coach Carlos Queiroz in northern Mozambique was attacked by insurgents on Thursday, prompting the evacuation of at least three Americans who were hunting in the area when the attack occurred.
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” former Hamas hostage Evyatar David said that his captors tried to excuse starving him and other hostages by saying “there is no food in Gaza. But we knew it’s not
Actor-comedian Michael Rapaport said he stopped referring to President Donald Trump as “Dick Stain” because he wanted to support efforts to bring home the hostages taken during the October 7 attacks.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel highlighted how the agency successfully carried out two Hostage Rescue Team operations within 24 hours. In a weekly internal update to agents, Patel expressed that he was “grateful” to the FBI’s Sacramento
A major new report from a two-year investigation documenting Hamas’s October 7 atrocities concluded that sexual violence during the terror group’s massacre and subsequent hostage captivity was “deliberate,” “systematic,” and “integral” to the attack, detailing what researchers described as recurring patterns of rape, sexual torture, mutilation, and abuse carried out across massacre sites, abduction routes, and throughout the prolonged captivity of hostages in Gaza.
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.
A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said.
Iran-backed Shiite militants in Iraq released captive American journalist Shelly Kittleson, and Iran released two French nationals.
The Taliban junta in Afghanistan on Tuesday released U.S. citizen Dennis Coyle after 14 months in captivity. He arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday morning.
WASHINGTON–First lady Melania Trump met with Keith and Aviva Siegel, who were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, at the White House on Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday morning that “there are officially no more hostages in captivity in Gaza.”
Israel’s Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday unveiled what they called a first-of-its-kind global parliamentary bid to nominate President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, declaring that “no one has ever deserved that honor more” and that “no person in the world has done more for peace over the past year.”
DOHA, Qatar — A top adviser to the highest levels of the Qatari government told Breitbart News on Sunday evening here at the Doha Forum it was a Breitbart News interview with the Prime Minister of Qatar at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) back in September that helped President Donald Trump land the deal that produced the ceasefire in Gaza that brought home the remaining living Israeli hostages from Hamas.
President Donald Trump on Thursday met with recently freed Israeli hostages at the White House, just over a month after a historic Middle East peace deal that has thus far secured the release of the remaining living, and 25 of 28 deceased hostages, who were held captive by Hamas.
The Iranian regime held massive rallies in over 900 cities on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in 1979 – an event known as the “National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The terrorists of Hamas returned the remains of three more slain hostages to Israel on Sunday. All three were Israeli soldiers who were killed attempting to repel the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The terrorists dragged their bodies back to Gaza to use as bargaining chips.
Hamas returned the body of American-Israeli Capt. Omer Neutra to Israel on Sunday, a bittersweet handover his father marked with Jeremiah’s line that “your children shall return to their own land” — “Our Omer is on Israeli soil … so much pain, and so much relief.”
Israel confirmed Thursday night that two bodies delivered by the Hamas terrorist organization via the Red Cross were those of two dead Israeli hostages, Amiram Cooper, 85, and Sahar Baruch, 25.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a rare criticism of Hamas on Tuesday after the terrorist organization staged a fake retrieval of a body it falsely claimed to be that of a missing hostage.
Hamas was caught on video faking the retrieval of a body of one of the 13 dead Israeli hostages whose bodies it was supposed to hand over two weeks ago under President Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Hamas positions in Gaza on Tuesday night after the terror organization staged a fake transfer of the body of one of the deceased hostages Monday.
Hamas staged a fake recovery of a hostage’s body in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli soldiers who observed the event; and also returned a coffin to Israel Monday that contained more remains of a previously recovered hostage.
Arab and Muslim nations that are expected to contribute to a peacekeeping force in Gaza are reportedly afraid to face Hamas, due to the group’s ferocity and the perception of appearing to be occupiers.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday and told reporters that he was confident Hamas was committed to its ceasefire with Israel in Gaza — but that it would be “obliterated” if it failed to disarm.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen raided a United Nations compound in the occupied capital of Sanaa on Saturday and took 20 employees hostage, the latest of several mass kidnappings the Houthis have conducted against U.N. personnel.
Israel is rejecting claims by Hamas, reiterated by the media, that the terrorist group has not delivered all of the remaining bodies of dead hostages, as promised, because it cannot locate them amid the rubble of Gaza.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner sparked controversy Sunday by defending Hamas’s good faith in the Gaza ceasefire, and suggesting Israel needs to treat Palestinians better.
The Israeli government demanded to know Sunday why the world is silent in the face of Hamas’s abuse of Palestinians in Gaza, including public beatings and executions, carried out in the ten days since the ceasefire.
The ceasefire in Gaza is holding, despite the fact that Hamas is violating it by executing rivals in public, delaying the transfer of the bodies of Israeli hostages, and even attacking Israeli soldiers on patrol.
Hamas offered starving hostages more food if they converted to Islam — and they refused, according to statements by families of some of the 20 living hostages who were returned to Israel earlier this week.
Rom Braslavski, freed this week after two years in captivity under the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was systematically tortured, kept in shackles, and repeatedly pressed to renounce his Jewish faith and convert to Islam in exchange for food, his mother told Hebrew media Wednesday.
A forensic examination revealed that one of the bodies delivered by Hamas via the Red Cross was not of an Israeli hostage, but of a Palestinian from Gaza.
One of the bodies handed over by Hamas terrorists as part of the Middle East ceasefire deal is not one of the hostages who was held in Gaza, the Israeli military said Wednesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), whose official “@GovPressOffice” account has been posting increasingly vicious attacks on President Donald Trump, crossed a line Tuesday by mocking the release of Israeli hostages.
Argentina on Monday celebrated the release of the last three remaining Argentine hostages taken by the jihadist terrorist group Hamas on October 7.
Donald Trump Jr. resurrected a clip of “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin vowing to wear a MAGA hat on air if President Trump succeeded in freeing Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
As President Donald Trump works tirelessly to secure peace in the Middle East, overseeing the release of hostages and the signing of a historic ceasefire, the wife of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned a Palestinian social media figure killed in Gaza known for promoting Hamas propaganda. Rama Duwaji has not yet commented on the hostage release or Trump’s agreement.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that “Hamas didn’t comply with the agreement today” by failing to deliver the remains of all the deceased hostages and only
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Deputy Chief of Mission for Israel’s Embassy in D.C. Eliav Benjamin stated that while Hamas was given 72 hours to release the remains of deceased hostages, “let’s also remember that 70 hours were
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David endured systematic starvation, psychological torture, and months buried alive in Hamas tunnels before Monday’s historic release after two years in captivity.
