Hostage

A hostage is a person who is held captive against his or her will. Hostages are often taken (held captive) to force someone else to do something for their...

He took four people prisoner, creating a hostage situation that lasted 10 hours. It ended when the FBI hostage team went into the synagogue. The man with...

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444...

16 December 2014, there was a hostage crisis in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Seventeen people were taken hostage by a gunman at 9:44 a.m. in a...

The Moscow theater hostage crisis (also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege) was a terrorist attack of the Dubrovka Theater by Chechen terrorists on 23 October...

On January 29, 2013, a five-year-old boy was taken hostage for almost seven days in Dale County, Alabama, in the United States. The boy, Ethan, was riding...

sometimes confused with Vili. Hœnir is part of the Aesir. Hœnir and Mimir were hostages in a war between the Aesir and Vanir gods. He was also an original Aesir...

The Manila hostage crisis (Tagalog: Pagbibihag ng bus sa Maynila; Chinese: 馬尼拉人質事件) happened on August 23, 2010. A man who had been fired from the Philippine...

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger gave the oath. On the same day, hostages from the Iran hostage crisis are released as Reagan is sworn in as President. United...

three hostages were released but those three hostages were soon replaced with three more hostages. Secretary of State George Shultz called it “a hostage Bazaar”...

Kidnapping and Murder Inspired the AMBER Alert System". 30 May 2021. Abduction Hostage Stockholm syndrome This short article can be made longer. You can help...

operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to try to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the...

taxicab driver-turned-humanitarian aid worker. He was the fourth Western hostage killed by Islamic State (IS). Henning was captured during IS's occupation...

Operation Entebbe, also known as Operation Jonathan, was an Israeli hostage rescue mission. It took place in July 1976 in Entebbe, Uganda. An Air France...

Filipino Roman Catholic priest. He became well known after he was taken hostage by ISIL-linked Maute group militants during the earlier period of the Battle...

terrorist attack on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days. 1,100 people were hostages and 333 people were killed. It is considered to be the deadliest school...

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Iran became intense following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the hostage crisis at the embassy in November 1979. "Former American Embassy in Iran...

others, and taking at least one hostage. A senior gendarme, Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, voluntarily swapped places with a hostage. After a three-hour stand-off...

known for having been the most senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis. He was the chargé d'affaires (head of diplomatic mission)...