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Terry Anderson, US Journalist Held Captive For Years In Lebanon, Dies
Terry Anderson, a US journalist who was held captive by Islamist terrorists for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolize the plight of Western hostages during the country's 1975-1990 civil war, died on Sunday at age 76.
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All Eyes On Qatar In Hostage Release Efforts Amid Israel-Hamas War
Boasting good relations with both Western governments and Hamas, the emirate of Qatar has emerged as the key power in efforts to release the hostages seized by the Palestinian Hamas group from Israel even as other states show readiness to help.
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Two Canadians Released By China And Headed Home: Justin Trudeau
Two Canadians imprisoned in what China's Western critics branded "hostage diplomacy" were headed home Friday after being released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
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Shots Heard As Bus Passengers Taken Hostage In Western Ukraine: Police
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.
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Taliban Shifted Western Hostages As Prisoner Swap Postponed: Report
A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Reuters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".
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US Military To Get Custody Of 2 British ISIS Men Over Killings In Syria
Two British men accused of involvement in the ISIS's summary executions of Western hostages, including Americans, are being transferred into US military custody because the Turkish incursion into Syria threatened their continued detention by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, according to US officials.
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2 ISIS Terrorists, Dubbed "Beatles", Tortured And Killed Western Tourists
Britain and the United States are in talks about the fate of two captured British ISIS terrorists, suspected of being part of a notorious group known for torturing and killing Western hostages, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said
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Britain And US In Talks Over Captured British IS Fighters: UK minister
Britain and the United States are in talks about the fate of two captured British ISIS militants, suspected of being part of a notorious group known for torturing and killing Western hostages, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said.
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American-Canadian Family Held Hostage For 5 Years By Taliban Freed, Says Pakistan
Five Western hostages, including three children, were recovered from terrorists with ties to the Afghan Taliban in an operation based on intelligence shared by the US after five years of their abduction, the Pakistan Army said today.
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Al Qaeda Planning Kidnappings Of Westerners For Prisoner Swaps: Report
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has appeared in an audio interview calling on fighters to take Western hostages and exchange them for jailed jihadists, the monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group said on Sunday.
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Masked Gunman Shot Dead After Injuring Nearly 50 In German Cinema: Reports
A masked man opened fire in a cinema complex in the small western German town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt, on Thursday, German media reported.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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Chinese Marines' Desert Operations Point To Long-Range Ambitions
Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 kilometres from the nearest ocean.
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In ISIS Stronghold, Residents Trapped In 'Sealed Casket' As Iraqi Forces Close In
As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by ISIS militants who want to use them as human shields.
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Terry Anderson, US Journalist Held Captive For Years In Lebanon, Dies
Terry Anderson, a US journalist who was held captive by Islamist terrorists for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolize the plight of Western hostages during the country's 1975-1990 civil war, died on Sunday at age 76.
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All Eyes On Qatar In Hostage Release Efforts Amid Israel-Hamas War
Boasting good relations with both Western governments and Hamas, the emirate of Qatar has emerged as the key power in efforts to release the hostages seized by the Palestinian Hamas group from Israel even as other states show readiness to help.
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Two Canadians Released By China And Headed Home: Justin Trudeau
Two Canadians imprisoned in what China's Western critics branded "hostage diplomacy" were headed home Friday after being released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
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Shots Heard As Bus Passengers Taken Hostage In Western Ukraine: Police
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.
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Taliban Shifted Western Hostages As Prisoner Swap Postponed: Report
A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Reuters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".
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US Military To Get Custody Of 2 British ISIS Men Over Killings In Syria
Two British men accused of involvement in the ISIS's summary executions of Western hostages, including Americans, are being transferred into US military custody because the Turkish incursion into Syria threatened their continued detention by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, according to US officials.
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2 ISIS Terrorists, Dubbed "Beatles", Tortured And Killed Western Tourists
Britain and the United States are in talks about the fate of two captured British ISIS terrorists, suspected of being part of a notorious group known for torturing and killing Western hostages, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said
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Britain And US In Talks Over Captured British IS Fighters: UK minister
Britain and the United States are in talks about the fate of two captured British ISIS militants, suspected of being part of a notorious group known for torturing and killing Western hostages, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said.
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American-Canadian Family Held Hostage For 5 Years By Taliban Freed, Says Pakistan
Five Western hostages, including three children, were recovered from terrorists with ties to the Afghan Taliban in an operation based on intelligence shared by the US after five years of their abduction, the Pakistan Army said today.
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Al Qaeda Planning Kidnappings Of Westerners For Prisoner Swaps: Report
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has appeared in an audio interview calling on fighters to take Western hostages and exchange them for jailed jihadists, the monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group said on Sunday.
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Masked Gunman Shot Dead After Injuring Nearly 50 In German Cinema: Reports
A masked man opened fire in a cinema complex in the small western German town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt, on Thursday, German media reported.
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How A British Citizen Became One Of The Most Notorious Members Of ISIS
The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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Chinese Marines' Desert Operations Point To Long-Range Ambitions
Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 kilometres from the nearest ocean.
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In ISIS Stronghold, Residents Trapped In 'Sealed Casket' As Iraqi Forces Close In
As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by ISIS militants who want to use them as human shields.
