ISIS releases 19 Assyrian Christian hostages
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, all but one of the hostages were among the at least 220 Assyrians captured on February 23 during an attack on…
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Pirates Free 4 Fishermen in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Four Thai fishermen held captive by Somali pirates for nearly five years, longer than any other hostages seized off the Somali coast, have been released after intensive…
‘Jihadi John’: The Islamic State Killer Behind The Mask Is A Young Londoner
The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos…
Eye on ISIS: 150 held in Syria; 3 arrested in U.S. in alleged plot
Here are some of the latest headlines: Activist: Lives of 150 Christian hostages in danger ISIS is holding 150 Assyrian Christians as hostages in Syria, and will threaten to kill…
Armed Inmates Take Warden, Others Hostage In Taiwan Prison
Six inmates took prison staff including the warden hostage, seized guns and ammunition, and demanded safe exit from a prison in southern Taiwan on Wednesday, authorities said. Taiwan’s Ministry of…
ISIS’ high-profile hostages
In other cases, where money isn’t forthcoming, the Islamic militant group has publicized its barbaric killings of the hostages, apparently in an effort to score propaganda points with its extremist…
Two arrested in Sydney for allegedly planning terror attacks inside Australia
New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said they believe the men, aged 24 and 25, were advanced in their preparations for an act of terrorism in Australia as…
Source: ISIS wants more hostages
The source said the terrorists want to go into countries such as Lebanon and Jordan and bring hostages back to Syria, where they could be used in ISIS propaganda videos,…
ISIS Tactics Questioned as Hostages Dwindle
AMMAN, Jordan — The extremists of the Islamic State managed to parlay their Japanese and Jordanian hostages into 12 days of worldwide publicity. But other than depleting their supply of…
How ISIS’ new hostage strategy is shifting the goalposts
Three of the prisoners ISIS apparently wants back are womena failed suicide bomber, an alleged bomb maker and a woman tied to the head of ISIS. The fourth is a…
Japan’s ISIS hostage crisis: Where things stand
The militants appear to have killed one of the two Japanese hostages they have been holding. And they’re apparently demanding the release of a convicted terrorist in Jordan to spare…
ISIS demanding release of convicted terrorist to save Japanese hostage
A video file posted online Saturday by a known ISIS supporter shows an image of one hostage, Kenji Goto, holding a photo of what appears to be the corpse of…
Obama Condemns Murder Of Japanese Man By Islamic State Militants
RAMSTEIN, Germany, Jan 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama strongly condemned on Saturday the killing of Japanese citizen Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State militants, the White House said in…
Japan Seeks to Verify ISIS Video of Hostage Death
TOKYO — The Japanese government expressed outrage at an image released Saturday that purported to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants,…
Japan Vows Not To Give Up On 2 Hostages ‘Until The Very End’
Japan promised Saturday not to give up “until the very end” on efforts to free two Japanese hostages threatened with beheading by Islamic militants demanding a $200 million ransom, after…
Islamic State-Linked Militants Say Countdown For Japan’s Hostages Has Begun
Militants affiliated with the Islamic State group have posted an online warning that the “countdown has begun” for the group to kill a pair of Japanese hostages. The posting which…
Should nations just pay ISIS ransom?
The black-clad, masked British ISIS terrorist who has taken center stage in the group’s hostage videos appeared in a new video on Tuesday threatening the lives of two Japanese hostages,…
Japan Agonizes Over Ways To Free ISIS Hostages
Lacking strong clout and diplomatic reach in the Middle East, Japan scrambled Thursday for ways to secure the release of two hostages held by the Islamic State group, as two…
Who Are The Japanese Hostages Threatened By ISIS?
Two Japanese men have been threatened with death by the Islamic State group if their government doesn’t pay a huge ransom. A look at hostages and Japan, and its interests…
Web of Terror: Paris attackers’ connection to global jihad
But when that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took hostages at a kosher supermarket the next day, demanding that police stand down from a siege of the Kouachi brothers happening just outside…
ISIS repeats a threat; NYPD, other law enforcement on high alert
It’s not the first time ISIS has made such a threat. NYPD employees were told to “remain alert and consider tactics at all times while on patrol,” especially in light…
Gunman tried to justify market raid to hostages, recording apparently shows
French radio station RTL says that it called the market after authorities say Coulibaly took customers and workers hostage there. Coulibaly apparently took the call and then tried to hang…
Massive search for woman linked to Paris hostage-taker
Now the 26-year-old Boumeddiene is the subject of a massive hunt after Coulibalysaid to be linked to two brothers accused in Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of a Parisian satirical…
Jittery nation lives a new crisis
The twin standoffsone outside the French capital involving the suspects who shot and killed 12 people Wednesday at the offices of the satirical magazine, the other at a kosher grocery…