The seven children and wife of the longest-held American hostage in Iran closed out a two-day hearing in D.C. federal court Thursday with agonized testimony on the nightmare they fell into back in 2007 when former FBI agent Bob Levinson disappeared.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $179 million in damages to Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in an Iranian prison after being falsely accused of being an American spy.
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The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died after being released from North Korea in a coma in 2017, are seeking to find and shut down illicit North Korean business assets around the world, to hold its government accountable for human rights abuses.
Read moreThe Taliban released two Western hostages in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, handing them over to U.S. forces more than three years after they were abducted in Kabul, insurgent sources and police said.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced new sanctions Monday on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, which gripped the nation as 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days during a student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Read moreA federal judge granted partial summary judgment to 82 crew members of the USS Pueblo captured by North Korea in international waters in 1968, after which they were held hostage under inhuman conditions for almost a year; the actions constituted state-sponsored terrorism.
Read moreU.S.-backed Syrian forces say their push to defeat the Islamic State group in its last, tiny bastion in Syria has been slowed by the presence of civilians and scores of prisoners held by the extremists.
Read moreThe family of a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for more than a year say he has been tortured and is on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
Read morePakistan’s prime minister pledged on Thursday his country would release a captured Indian fighter pilot, a move that could help defuse the most serious confrontation in two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the disputed region of Kashmir.
Read moreAn armed man who entered a UPS processing facility Monday morning and held two women hostage for several hours was shot and killed by police as he left the building with the women, authorities said.
Read moreA four-hour hostage standoff in central Paris ended with police moving in, arresting the suspect and freeing those held, France’s interior minister announced late Tuesday.
Read moreAn armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing two and injuring about a dozen others, police said. He had earlier opened fire on officers nearby.
Read moreAuthorities in Northern California have so far been tight-lipped about why a former Army rifleman may have killed three women after a daylong siege at a veterans home in Napa County wine country.
Read moreA gunman took at least three people hostage at a large veterans home in California on Friday and police locked down the sprawling grounds, Napa County Fire Capt. Chase Beckman said.
Read moreCanadian Joshua Boyle, his American wife and their children endured a long captivity in Afghanistan before they were rescued last fall and returned to Canada. Now he’s facing 15 charges including sexual assault, forcible confinement and administering a noxious drug.
Read moreRussian presidential hopeful Ksenia Sobchak urged President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to seek a full investigation of one of the country’s worst hostage crises, but stopped short of blaming him for the deadly raid that ended the standoff 15 years ago.
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An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years of being held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday.
Read moreAn aid worker held for nearly three years in an Egyptian prison returned to the United States Thursday night, with the White House calling President Donald Trump’s talks with the Egyptian president critical to securing her release.
Read moreThe Taliban have released a video showing an American and an Australian who were kidnapped in August, the first time they’ve been seen since their abduction.
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