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hostage
Steven Sotloff’s parents implore Obama to bring home a missing American journalist
The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish freelance journalist beheaded by the Islamic State nearly two years ago, have joined the families of three other killed U.S. hostages in urging President Barack Obama to bring home a missing American hostage.
Obama announces new hostage response, but no U.S. ransoms
President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists and acknowledged the government had sometimes let the families down.
Captive American journalist in Syria set free in Israeli Golan Heights
An American journalist held hostage in Syria by a group affiliated with al-Qaida was released to the Israeli Golan Heights.
U.N. curbs Golan patrols after peacekeepers seized, diplomats say
U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights have scaled back patrols after rebels detained 21 Filipino observers for three days last week, diplomats said on Thursday.
Foreigners still caught in Sahara hostage crisis
More than 20 foreigners were still either being held hostage or missing inside a gas plant on Friday after Algerian forces stormed the desert complex to free hundreds of captives taken by Islamist militants.
Shalits reveal content of 2006 letter from Gilad
The family of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit has allowed public access to a letter he wrote just months after being taken captive by Palestinian militants in 2006.
Sion Ebrahami: I was taken hostage by the moujahadeen
With the passage of time, we realized that these people were from three factions within the firm, which included the Mojahedeen faction, the communist faction and there were the very fanatic pro-Khomeini faction