Hostage

During the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, a crowd applauded as masked militants led two pale and stunned Israeli detainees onto a wet stage in front of cameras. In the southern Gazan...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that, according to the terms of the truce agreement, Hamas had turned over the body of a “Gazan woman” the day before rather than Shiri Bibas, the hostage....

In accordance with a ceasefire agreement for Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners on Saturday. However, a last-minute disagreement prevented hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from returning to the destroyed northern part of...

On Tuesday, France issued a warning to its citizens not to visit Iran until French nationals detained there were freed. “The situation of our compatriots held hostage in Iran is quite simply unacceptable. They have been...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was urged by the families of the five Israeli women soldiers who have been held captive in Gaza since the Hamas strikes on October 7 to reach a deal for their release...

The corpse of a captive taken by Hamas in their attacks on southern Israel on October 7 was discovered by Israeli soldiers close to the biggest hospital in Gaza, the army reported on Thursday. Yehudit Weiss...

A woman abducted into Gaza by Hamas militants on October 7 has given birth in captivity, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a letter released by his office Wednesday. “One of the...

US authorities identified the guy who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue as a British citizen on Sunday, and UK police later arrested two teenagers in connection with the crime, which President Joe Biden...

News Hour: Hundreds of troops have stormed a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, where gunmen took at least 20 hostages on Friday, security officials say, reports BBC and other local and international news agencies. Explosions...