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They looked like hostageshostages in need of the Heimlich.
Two hostages had been freed, it said, and "several" hostages remained.
The word "hostages" is frequently heard in Beirut — as in hostages of Hezbollah.
"American hostages have suffered disproportionately bad outcomes compared to other Western hostages," it found.
"All he's doing is using hostages and we should not be using our children as hostages, we should not be using DACA recipients as hostages," said Democratic Sen.
And to return to the analogy of hostages, there are hostages in that country, right?
Dhaka cafe attack: Bangladeshis mourn hostages, officers killed They were hostages, families say However, the families of the two suspects insist that they are innocent and were in fact hostages who survived the horrific attack.
When the gunman turned the weapon on the other hostages, it appeared to malfunction, and one of the hostages attacked.
All Americans are thrilled that the hostages are back in America, but taking hostages and then releasing them is not nice.
Initially, 66 American hostages were taken, but that number dwindled t0 52 by July 1980 as hostages were released for various reasons.
She asks him where the hostages are "so we can avoid them in the crossfire" — and they discover the hostages have already escaped.
He threatened to kill hostages multiple times … he was actually putting the gun to the back of the hostages head at a couple points.
Goudamanis was originally hired to obtain proof of life for the hostages, in addition to pressuring U.S. policymakers to help have the hostages released.
The ELN is committed to liberating the remaining hostages, the statement added, despite military involvement it said had complicated the hand-over of hostages.
Trump said that there are negotiations going on in other locations to free American hostages, but would not say where these hostages were located.
French hostages: A police officer who was shot after taking the place of hostages in a supermarket siege in France has died from his injuries.
One of the hostages, Huub Helthuis, the Dutch businessman, said he had believed Mr. Mustafa posed a threat, but some of his fellow hostages had not.
While Americans account for roughly one out of five Western hostages since 2001, they make up half of the hostages who were murdered by their captors.
This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl!
The effort reflected a sweeping change in how the government handles hostages, a shift ordered last year by President Obama after hostages' families complained of officials' callousness and poor communication.
Hostages at a Kosher Market in Paris Two days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, an ISIS-linked attacker and his companion took hostages at a Kosher supermarket in Paris.
Plus, as you all know very well, we got back our hostages -- our three hostages, who are right now living very happily with their families, and we're very happy about that.
But Mr. Lopez connected with a second Twitter user claiming to be an Islamic State figure who could get American hostages released, and Mr. Lopez tried to contact several hostages' families.
During the operation, two additional hostages not identified by initial intelligence reports were discovered in the enemy encampment; these hostages, an American woman and a South Korean woman, were also freed.
The militants rounded up the surviving hostages, about 300 people, and forced them to go to other parts of the school, while dead, wounded and traumatized hostages stayed in the gymnasium.
The Terrorists try to plant bombs or take hostages, for example, while the Counter-Terrorists strive to defuse those bombs and rescue any hostages, as both sides try to eliminate the other.
Hostages later told police that Mateen had threatened to strap bomb vests on four people held as hostages inside of the nightclub for roughly three hours early on the morning of June 12.
Half of the 126 hostages were hospitalized, according to CNN.
American hostages have reported wildly different conditions during their imprisonment.
After hanging up, the gunman asked the hostages a question.
So, I think -- and we&aposve also got hostages back.
How terrorist beheadings brutalize us all Are there other hostages?
President Trump has had considerable success bringing American hostages home.
This is when they say they knew there were hostages.
Two Sri Lankans were among the hostages rescued, officials said.
Local media reported one of the hostages had been killed.
The hostages were later killed in a botched rescue mission.
He crosses the DMZ, Kim Jong Un. Hostages are released.
And he crossed the DMZ and he released the hostages.
The government said 33 of the freed hostages were injured.
" BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, "Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?
Inside the club, the hostages remained in the bathrooms, waiting.
The hostages are believed to be from India and Pakistan.
"We do not pay ransom for hostages," the President declaimed.
So, following his election, the hostages were dutifully returned home.
A police spokeswoman said policemen were among the 24 hostages.
However, she praised their work on assisting American hostages abroad.
They are shown beheading hostages sometime prior to the attacks.
Some hostages were killed, they added, without providing specific figures.
The hijackers, three hostages and dozens of Ugandan soldiers died.
But the commandos missed the hostages by hours, officials said.
More controversially, it took hostages and kidnapped people for ransom.
The possibility of hostages hadn't been definitively ruled out, either.
Seventeen hostages, including children, were rescued by troops this weekend.
How, with the $360 million impounded, were the hostages released?
The hostages were released, but the government refused to negotiate.
I know now that my kids will not be hostages.
Hostages and political detainees are a real problem, aren't they?
He denied it was for the hostages, but it was.
As he delivers his address, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
By the evening, all of the hostages were released unharmed.
He was a good friend, while Danny took no hostages.
It has also helped to free American hostages in Yemen.
The release of hostages also fits into Trump's businessperson mentality.
Known as Jihadi John, he beheaded American and British hostages.
"The payments were made within hours of the hostages being released, and the plane carrying the hostages was not allowed to leave Tehran until the plane with the ransom payment arrived," the senator added.
Police officers Friday evening stormed the room where Albert Wong had taken the hostages at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville eight hours earlier, and found the hostages and the gunman dead, authorities said.
The country's banks, however, are looking more like hostages to fortune.
This horrifying Florida Man story involves boats, guns, cocaine and hostages.
The terrorist group Black September took hostages at the 1972 Olympics.
The hostages were freed later, and the two men were arrested.
Most of them were released, but the group kept 20 hostages.
Britain considers negotiating prisoner releases tantamount to paying ransom for hostages.
Kurds killed the attackers and freed the hostages, according to witnesses.
The majority have since been released, but around 20 hostages remain.
Six other hostages from the same group were freed in October.
Three Iraqi militia leaders say the hostages were held in Iran.
Aust has kept these refugees as political hostages for 3 yrs.
"They use them (the relatives of activists) as hostages", Kabiri said.
About 10 gunshots were heard after the hostages escaped, WAGA said.
A fake music festival served its hostages very sad cheese sandwiches.
The episode ends with Red challenging Piscatella after finding his hostages.
Child refugees drowned at sea; Western hostages were murdered on camera.
Thirty-nine people — 29 prisoners and 10 hostages — would be killed.
Twenty hostages and two police officers were killed in that attack.
Tell us what debriefing of other hostages has revealed about Kayla.
Two Canadian hostages, John Ridsdel and Robert Hall, were later beheaded.
We have our, as you know, we have our hostages back.
The hostages inside the store were all reported to be safe.
He fights off the Hand while Karen leads away the hostages.
In total, four hostages are killed and two others are wounded.
These kind of traumatic bonds are characterized by hostages' distorted thinking.
The Qatari hostages were suddenly valuable pawns in this geopolitical game.
The hostages included two Frenchmen, an American and a South Korean.
Meanwhile the Filipino military is continuing its search for the hostages.
Obviously, I guess for the hostages, it certainly looks that way.
Unlike other hostages, Van Dyk does not return a wounded hero.
The hostages were freed on the day of Mr. Reagan's inauguration.
Three other hostages were injured, including one with life-threatening injuries.
The hostages stopped counting the moves after they got to 100.
They took hostages, including six students, to prevent troops from advancing.
I'm against holding hostages whether on this side or that side.
They should start by releasing Kevin Hassett and the other hostages.
The hostages were finally released minutes before Reagan's inauguration on Jan.
The government said the group was holding at least four hostages.
His plans included taking hostages and killing students and police officers.
In September it said one of the hostages had been killed.
Some hostages have come back pregnant -- will their communities accept them?
Mr. Profaci agreed to the terms, and the hostages were released.
The American government says the group beheaded more than 27 hostages.
The 1976 operation rescued hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
"Are we simply incentivizing Iran to take further hostages?" he asked.
Putting immigration aside would mean that Republicans wouldn't be able to hold hostages to extract budget concessions—but it doesn't mean that they won't continue to hold hostages to extract concessions on immigration and border security.
Indeed, we recall all too painfully the deaths of US hostages at the hands of ISIS terrorists in Syria and the outrage on the part of hostages' families who felt threatened and uninformed by US officials.
During the interview, Kotey also put blame on Western governments for not negotiating with militants for the release of hostages, pointing to the fact that some other hostages had been released in exchange for ransom payments.
Asked about a tweet from Trump on Wednesday blaming Obama for failing to secure the release of three hostages from North Korea, despite two of the hostages being taken during the Trump administration, Conway dismissed the question.
"It's great for example that he's releasing the three hostages, but remember he took the hostages in order to release them later and to get rewarded for it, so this is not a huge breakthrough," said Boot.
The group, whose leader Mohammed Emwazi, aka "Jihadi John," gained notoriety for appearing in videos showing the murders of Western hostages, are said by former hostages of Islamic State to have been assigned to guard foreign prisoners.
Five of the hostages — three women and two children — were released early.
Inside the apartment, it was just her and her cat — no hostages.
That coincidentally occurred on the same day Iran released for American hostages.
We have our hostages, testing, research and all missile launches have stopped.
The feds were the hostages, the ones who were surrounded without hope.
By blasting Trump for the way he welcomed the U.S. hostages home.
Children were being held as literal hostages in a legislative negotiating strategy.
There were no hostages and violence was directed between inmates, Almeida said.
"He did, through negotiations, release a couple of the hostages," Williams said.
Elgin was determined to punish the Qing for their mistreatment of hostages.
FLEISCHER: They covered the hostages but it was a one-day story.
The hostages need to die and they need to find Luke Cage.
He refuses to renew negotiations until the ELN has freed all hostages.
Levinson was not among five American hostages that Iran released in January.
Both the hostages and their captors were "under tremendous pressure," he said.
Syria ally Russia is reportedly involved in negotiations to free the hostages.
They used them as hostages, forcing the government to release Guzman Lopez.
They then took off to the Splendid Hotel, where they seized hostages.
Dogs are our furry hostages, and their large eyes disguise the truth.
Hostages are taken from Mali and neighbours, and traded for huge ransoms.
They and the president are "hostages to one another", says Ms López.
Mr. Barai said the surviving hostages sensed that the siege was ending.
Fourth, will Western hostages that are held by the Taliban be released?
Local authorities had earlier said the gunmen took hostages in the building.
He appeared with two other hostages; all were handcuffed and appeared gaunt.
The Observatory said jihadists seized hostages from the villages they had attacked.
Of the 90 Western hostages murdered since 2001, 41 were American citizens.
Ali flew to Baghdad, met Saddam and left with 14 American hostages.
Rahila realized they were Boko Haram's most famous hostages — the Chibok girls.
The authorities rescued some hostages, and the gunman released others, officials said.
But Boko Haram is increasingly raiding villages for food rather than hostages.
The 52 American hostages were ultimately held in captivity for 444 days.
General Lecointre said "the raid was looking for two hostages," not four.
The armed man earlier freed six hostages, CNN affiliate Record TV reported.
Special forces troops rescued more than 50 hostages, state news outlets reported.
The police convinced Mr. Arthurs to release the hostages and arrested him.
He showed both the hostages and a grenade, via a video call.
But at the same time, they wind up hostages in this house.
The firing was at first mostly indiscriminate, striking hostages and inmates alike.
Few of the ransoms were met, and instead the hostages were beheaded.
Soldiers fought back, securing the buildings and freeing the hostages, Mehta said.
"Speed is a very important thing I find with hostages," Trump said.
DREAMer activists spoke of themselves as "hostages" under the White House proposal.
Jimmy Carter had failed to secure the release of the Iran hostages.
He said human trafficking occurs elsewhere, because border guards would notice hostages.
Jennifer, when you look at all of the things we got and when we got our hostages back, I did not pay $1.8 billion in cash like the hostages that came back from Iran which was a disgraceful situation.
Then they wailed that no American hostages had been freed with the deal.
The resulting trap for such failing pirates and their "forgotten" hostages seemed inescapable.
Police also did not confirm reports that one of the hostages was injured.
WATTERS: When the cash went over, those hostages came back the same day.
It was not immediately clear if any of the hostages had been harmed.
One challenge will be securing what are believed to be dozens of hostages.
The outlet also reported that police were at the hotel to retrieve hostages.
Here's what we know about the three US hostages headed home right now.
About an hour later, the girl was released along with the other hostages.
I've seen what it does and the hostages are taken under that disease.
They target oil tankers, usually seeking hostages for ransom and fuel to sell.
Al Shabaab holds an unknown number of Kenyan and Ugandan soldiers as hostages.
I got all these hostages, including your old lady and your old man.
The hostages included a French national, a Tanzanian and three Congolese, he said.
Dozens of hostages were killed by the fentanyl gas, along with the insurgents.
Santos has said negotiations will not start until the group frees two hostages.
Santos has said no talks will begin until all ELN hostages are freed.
He declined to comment on any specifics on how the hostages were freed.
Two men who were hostages in the cafe attack remain in police custody.
As an advocate for all American hostages and their families, I find Sen.
Scott use his office to help bring American hostages home, starting with Bob.
Western hostages were recently released by the terrorist group as recently as November.
Among the freed hostages was the country's minister of public works, Clement Sawadogo.
Last May, Trump secured the release of three American hostages from North Korea.
Since then, negotiations have been ongoing to exchange the hostages for IS fighters.
She nudged him to publicly accept responsibility for the arms-for-hostages scandal.
Abu Sayyaf's tactics are brutal, decapitating hostages when ransom demands are not met.
The suspect has been critically wounded and several hostages were released, officials said.
John Nicholson, said the Haqqani Network held a total of five American hostages.
On May 10, the first couple welcomed home American hostages from North Korea.
The fear is that such groups could sell their hostages to extremist organizations.
The combined forces stormed a building, shot mock militants and secured the hostages.
To ensure the deal's implementation, Obama ransomed U.S. hostages with pallets of cash.
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"You're focusing on the tweet, and we're focused on the hostages," Conway said.
There are still 213 hostages and eight foreign militants remaining, according to Ano.
"He is taking hostages you can't shoot," says one senior Congressional Democratic aide.
In the crossfire 33 prisoners were killed, along with nine hostages (after Quinn).
Since the extensions would be temporary, he wouldn't even be releasing the hostages.
A SWAT team was able to free the hostages just before 10 p.m.
French and Burkinabe forces stormed the hotel hours later and freed 126 hostages.
The police feared he would could kill again, or at least take hostages.
One video shows cops charging the bathroom where hostages were held and killed.
Also among the hostages were McFarland and a part-time Lane Bryant employee.
It was actually $1.7 billion in cash, obviously, I guess for the hostages.
Bill Richardson that has has secured the release of hostages the world over.
All of us are hostages to forces over which we have no control.
They were infamous for their role in the torture and killing of hostages.
Western hostages nicknamed the three men "the Beatles" due to their English accents.
The arms-for-hostages storm hurt Mr. Bush and emboldened his Republican opponents.
"Museums must not be hostages to the painful history of colonization," he said.
Mali's government said it was working with the military to find the hostages.
And a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages.
More than 50 Americans were seized and held as hostages for 444 days.
"Our troops are hostages and we owe them more than that," Carlson added.
The Guardian reported earlier that a deal for the hostages' freedom was imminent.
Releasing hostages has been one of the most successful parts of his presidency.
A total of 22015 hostages are killed, more than half of them children.
We have a tremendous record — nobody comes close to our record with hostages.
The three men, the longest-held American hostages in Colombia, endured brutal conditions.
Moshe's parents, who operated the center, were killed along with four other hostages.
This is not really a story about hostages, or Reagan, or even Iran.
That raid resulted in 39 people—29 prisoners, ten hostages—being shot dead.
In the video, however, the male hostages were pictured wearing orange T-shirts, mirroring ISIS videos in which hostages are forced to wear orange jumpsuits in a grim reference to prisoners at Guantanamo, the U.S.' controversial military prison in Cuba.
PARIS — Najim Laachraoui, one of the two suicide bombers who attacked Brussels Airport last month, has been identified by former Islamic State hostages as one of their captors in Syria, a lawyer for several of the hostages said on Friday.
Asif Ghafoor, the spokesman for the Pakistani military, said its forces had managed to trace the vehicle carrying the hostages within five hours of a tip from the United States, and had rescued the hostages after blowing out the vehicle's tires.
As late as December 21981, Mr. Rockefeller personally urged the incoming Reagan administration to encourage a counterrevolution by stopping "rug merchant type bargaining" for the hostages and instead taking military action to punish Iran if the hostages were not released.
"We are hostages, stuck between two groups," said one Muslim who fled the village.
The hijackers abandoned the ship Sunday and took five hostages with them, he said.
Pirates are still loth to cut their losses by freeing such hostages without payment.
We are not sure how many civilian and police officials are among the hostages.
He was not in a normal state ... the hostages said he was drinking alcohol.
Fire officials said six hostages, ranging from 12 to 81 years old, were hospitalized.
No, we may get a deal with little rocket man, no, hostages are released.
More than five hours later, a second officer was let go, leaving two hostages.
North Korea just released three American hostages, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday morning.
How does the process of getting American hostages out of North Korea actually work?
The Amaq news agency, affiliated with IS, also posted photos purportedly showing hostages' bodies.
Authorities also denied rumors that a man had taken hostages in a nearby bar.
Inmates took the four hostages using sharp instruments, authorities said at the news conference.
"The President has pardoned them in exchange for a release of hostages," he said.
This president and his former secretary of State are for paying ransom for hostages.
The crew and passengers were held hostages for several hours before the pirates fled.
The group claims to still be holding a number of hostages inside the cafe.
The gunman took several hostages into one room before letting all but three escape.
Druze authorities and Islamic State have held negotiations for the release of the hostages.
The hostages we got them back even before I left we got them back.
They target tankers in particular, usually seeking hostages for ransom and fuel to sell.
Brzezinski characteristically favored military action to free the 52 American hostages and punish Iran.
Salic was implicated by one of the freed hostages, according to the Philippine authorities.
Monday's agreement said proceedings would begin to release two remaining hostages by Oct. 27.
Forcing the same endless wait on the families of murdered hostages makes no sense.
He stunned the world when he secured the release of 15 hostages from Iraq.
"The important thing there is to get the hostages out of Korea," Blunt said.
She roars through the series, a formidable businesswoman and fashionista who takes no hostages.
In that time, around 1,700 hostages were rescued, including 20 on Monday, he added.
Inside, they found the bodies of 20 victims and rescued at least 13 hostages.
By some accounts, the gunmen assured the Bangladeshi hostages that they would be spared.
Hostages were told to recite verses from the Quran in order to save themselves.
Security forces are trying to negotiate the release of several hostages inside the restaurant.
Some of them communicated by text message and social media with the hostages inside.
The hope was to gain Tehran&aposs help in freeing US hostages in Lebanon.
The Islamic State has murdered American hostages and committed terrorist attacks in the West.
He briefly attempted to take hostages before he was shot dead by other authorities.
It is notorious for beheading hostages when money for their release is not paid.
President Donald Trump deserves praise for freeing Americans held by foreign governments as hostages.
From 1979 to 1981, 53 hostages were held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
The court ruled that Russia authorities failed to prevent Chechen militants from taking hostages.
The hostages were freed in January 22016 — on the day Reagan was inaugurated. OCT.
Sanctions invoked by President Jimmy Carter had virtually no impact on the hostages' fate.
It's something that hasn't gone unnoticed by family and friends of real US hostages.
This wouldn't be the first time that ISIS has taken hostages during a retreat.
The men are said to have covered their faces while interacting with the hostages.
But as time passed, the men seemed more apologetic and admitted ransoming Western hostages.
Before dawn broke the next day, the hostages were freed and the prisoners subdued.
Not only were hostages kept in captivity, the militants were also not done kidnapping.
A Cameroon military officer said the hostages numbered 20 students along with one teacher.
Four months into captivity, the hostages made a strategic decision to convert to Islam.
After their conversion to Islam, the hostages prayed, ate and sat with their kidnappers.
They are notorious for their roles in an ISIS cell that killed Western hostages.
There were no hostages, and no one in the homes had called the police.
Could the regime use  political prisoners as "hostages" to extract concessions from the opposition?
He lied about the hostages – openly and blatantly – just like he lied about Obamacare.
Were they trying to protect their wives and children, who were effectively Stalin's hostages?
If they act like hostages to their base, expect more of the status quo.
"Independent human rights activists in Egypt have become hostages of the regime," he said.
The pirates withdrew but took the eight hostages, leaving behind two other crew members.
Duque has said the ELN must free 19 hostages before any dialogue can resume.
Thirteen hostages were rescued, including one Japanese and two Sri Lankans, the army said.
Authorities admit they do not know how many hostages the ELN is currently holding.
So, Jennifer, when you look at all of those things that we got — and when we got our hostages back, I didn't pay $1.8 billion in cash like the hostages that came back from Iran, which was a disgraceful situation, what took place.
Mr. Putin said terrorists who seized a theater in Moscow in 2002 had intended to execute hostages on Red Square, but were thwarted when he ordered the release of a powerful sleeping gas on the premises — though this killed more than 100 hostages.
The police said Mr. Arthurs told his hostages that he had killed someone and that he was furious over American bombings of Muslim countries; he was convinced by police officers responding to the incident to let the hostages leave and to surrender.
The two men have given Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces details about potential burial locations of several US and Western hostages killed by Mohammed Emwazi, the British ISIS operative known as Jihadi John responsible for the beheading of several American hostages, the officials said.
The gunman then went back inside of the club, continued the attack and took hostages.
Four security forces were killed when they tried to rescue the hostages, all Afghan nationals.
Qatar has previously mediated the release of foreign hostages held by Nusra Front in Syria.
" He contended that the Trump administration treated workers as "hostages" and "belittled their financial strain.
Last year, terrorists invaded a trendy restaurant in the capital, taking hostages and exchanging gunfire.
Army spokesman Colonal Edgard Arevalo said saving hostages was the priority of the military's mission.
Iguana conscripts his hostages in a war against his former pirate comrades who spurned him.
But right now, Kim Jong-un has given us three hostages, he agreed to denuclearize.
However, other patrons who fled to the bathrooms as the gunfire erupted were now hostages.
While some 150 hostages were freed, around two dozen people from 18 different countries died.
The North later released two of the hostages, but continued to hold the other nine.
Flatoff fired at two officers as they tried to rescue three hostages from the shop.
The shooter initially had more than three hostages, Childs added, but released some of them.
"We won't accept dialogue with those who had become hostages to foreign forces," he warned.
Authorities later explicitly denied rumors that a man had taken hostages in a nearby bar.
The militants took over the restaurant, killing hostages as security forces struggled to get in.
He decided against asking if any money had exchanged hands before the hostages were returned.
Trump has already brought an unprecedented pressure, we got hostages back for giving up nothing.
It's all to do with a woman... We are doing everything to release the hostages.
Mr Komarow volunteered, and by nightfall secured the release of nine hostages inside the obelisk.
" She added, "Now Iran was going to release hostages that we very much liked released.
Luke frees the rest of the hostages and finds Diamondback dangling Candace to her death.
The hunt for the hostages was on top of military operations already targeting Abu Sayyaf.
It's not clear how many hostages he took or whether they were employees or customers.
The debate over how to handle issues of ransom and hostages is a sensitive one.
Demands being made in exchange for the release of the hostages have not been reported.
The attackers took a number of hostages and at least one detonated a suicide bomb.
Two other gunmen, who stormed the hotel and took hostages, were killed the previous night.
The third team seized hostages at a nightclub where a rock concert was being held.
Demands being made in exchange for the release of their hostages have not been reported.
Police killed the gunman in attempt to free his hostages in the club, officials said.
Around 20 to 30 militants remain in the city, holding about 20 hostages, Maj. Gen.
We love our children so much it's physically painful; they've made hostages of our hearts.
Sadly, so many former hostages have died waiting on a D.C. miracle that never came.
The released hostages shook hands and hugged villagers, who applauded loudly after hearing Chung's commitment.
It is not immediately clear who was responsible or what the hostages' current circumstances are.
The two freed hostages and their slain companions were employees of Italian construction company Bonatti.
The Philippines armed forces have said the group is holding a number of other hostages.
Dozens of foreign hostages were killed along with terrorists when Algerian special forces stormed in.
Conway, meanwhile, is annoyed that he won't get any credit for helping rescue the hostages.
The hostages were released the following day, January 20, 1981 — the day Reagan was inaugurated.
In one instance, ISIS made between $127,000 and $244,000 in ransom from 16 hostages alone.
The hostages would be killed, the Islamic State had warned, it the pesh merga attacked.
In 2001, he organized the abduction of 20 hostages, including three Americans, from a resort.
But as the months wore on, there was still no timeline on freeing the hostages.
Sara, the sister of Mohammad, a Qaeda emir, lived near the hostages before the war.
"We're not going to take hostages," she told a lawmaker who suggested doing something similar.
Known as Jihadi John, he is believed to have personally beheaded American and British hostages.
Patel plays Arjun, a Sikh waiter who endures the horror to usher hostages to safety.
Last May, Pyongyang returned three American hostages that the Kim regime had held for months.
Ms. Sanders also said she "couldn't confirm the validity" of reports about the hostages' release.
"A lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages," Mr. Trump said.
Reporter: Police say as many as 40 hostages are still being held inside a restaurant.
Of the 16 continental European hostages held by the group, by contrast, 14 were released.
A multi-million dollar French scam Victims thought they were paying millions to free hostages.
The U.S. already has in custody two British men who tortured and killed Western hostages.
Hopes for peace rose earlier this month, when the Taliban released American and Australian hostages.
On that terrible night, the terrorists seized control of the bakery building and took hostages.
It's almost like, they were the hostages, but Trump is the one with Stockholm syndrome.
Hostages become pawns and condign punishment in the clerical regime's endless duel with the West.
But as their villainy comes into relief, the humanity of their hostages begins to blur.
In November of that year, protestors stormed the embassy and took dozens of American hostages.
He cited years of anxiety attacks, trouble sleeping and threats of suicide among former hostages.
There was no word yet on the fate of the priest and his fellow hostages.
The authorities suspected that the militants had been looking for hostages to hold for ransom.
Mateen was killed in a confrontation with police after a three-hour standoff involving hostages.
It's debilitating to his presidency, and the rest of us are hostages to his insecurities.
A U.S. woman and her family are free after five years as hostages in Afghanistan.
Eight out of 22015 European hostages held by jihadist terrorist groups were freed, compared to a quarter for the US and a third for the UK. This disparity played out in a gruesome and public fashion with the Western hostages held by ISIS in Syria.
The two other hostages, including a pregnant woman at a building, were being held as more than a dozen heavily-armed police officers, firefighters and rescue workers were stationed outside the entrance of the building where the hostages were being held, Le Parisien reported.
Their families and other hostages said that the two — Tahmid Khan, 22, a student at the University of Toronto, and Hasnat Karim, 47, a Briton working in Bangladesh — had been hostages during the attack and had been taken into custody after the siege ended.
François Lecointre, said the hostages were on their way to be transferred to the Macina Liberation Front, an Islamist militant group in Mali, and that it would have been "absolutely impossible" to set up a raid once the hostages were in the group's hands.
TPN-OPM has claimed responsibility for the shootings but denies police allegations it took civilian hostages.
However, none of these publicly identified hostages who was released was held by jihadist terrorist groups.
In 2014, two hostages and a gunman died in a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe.
But the men took no hostages, and aren't threatening to commit acts of violence against civilians.
About three hours later, the man walked out alongside four hostages who had their hands up.
Already, the president has secured the release of several hostages once held captive in North Korea.
I didn't do what Obama did, give $1.8 billion in cash to get back four hostages.
The jihadists who attacked an Algerian oilfield and took hostages in 2013 also demanded his release.
Another militant kills a policewoman the next day and takes hostages at a supermarket on Jan.
Of the four hostages, two — Floyd and a female prison employee — were held overnight, authorities said.
Security and two other officers all fired on the shooter, but the gunman then took hostages.
A radio reporter was killed, and the remaining hostages were released after a 39-hour standoff.
Following the murder of Ridsdel, at the beginning of May the group released ten Indonesian hostages.
Wheeler and fellow special operations troops were helping local forces rescue 70 hostages held by ISIS.
The bodies of 20 hostages were found on the floor, mostly hacked and stabbed to death.
Early on, it held 52 hostages taken from the U.S. embassy in Tehran for 444 days.
The hostages were all men from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, it said.
It's not clear how or why the majority of the hostages were able to go free.
Some Obama administration critics said the deal would encourage other countries to seize Americans as hostages.
After sealing the hole, the kidnappers took off, leaving their hostages buried alive for 103 hours.
After an 8-hour long standoff with police, he killed himself and three hostages, KCRA reported.
Before Mr Schellenberg's latest sentencing China had already taken what looked a lot like two hostages.
We&aposre out of the crazy Iran deal and the hostages come home from North Korea.
In 2016, the entire world was terrified by ISIS terrorists beheading hostages and blowing up nightclubs.
It was the beginning of a deadly siege, which lasted 16 hours, saw 18 hostages held.
About 15 hostages were freed by security forces, RTB reported, including the country's public sector minister.
He also released three American hostages in early May, seemingly as a sign of good faith.
The emergency room was evacuated and hostages negotiators talked for several hours with Salters, Gengler said.
The fear felt by foreign hostages held in Iraq, or "human shields" as Saddam called them.
Some security experts believe the gunmen intended to take hostages and force a drawn-out siege.
The gunman and two hostages were killed in the final minutes of the 16-hour siege.
After taking hostages, he was finally killed three hours later when the police stormed the venue.
"This President and his former secretary of state are for paying ransom for hostages," Christie said.
The U.S. State Department called for the immediate and unconditional release of King and other hostages.
The guerrillas have so far freed nine hostages, all members of the security forces or contractors.
Since we are all to some extent his hostages, I find this dismaying and rather frightening.
Republican members from red states are hostages whose own party would rather sacrifice than rescue them.
He was uncertain how many of the 14 were hostages and how many were Taliban insurgents.
They asked the staff to make coffee and tea and serve it to the remaining hostages.
Security forces stormed the restaurant on July 2, killing the gunmen and rescuing 13 hostages. video
They killed security guards and civilians before taking hostages in the upper floors of the building.
The refuge was located in a remote part of Oregon and the group didn't take hostages.
Military efforts have freed thousands of hostages of Boko Haram, most of them women and children.
Brockhart is uncomfortable and wants to let the government do its job to rescue the hostages.
The gunman, a 32-year-old Frenchman named Amédy Coulibaly, takes several hostages inside the store.
Authorities were not able to report whether or not any of the hostages had been killed.
It is believed they planned to hand over the hostages to the militant group Katiba Macina.
We don't negotiate for hostages," the Democratic vice presidential nominee said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
Rather than expressing outrage or disdain, the hostages expressed positive feelings and vehemently defended their captors.
It's possible they will discuss the plight of America's three hostages if and when they meet.
Why would it release potentially valuable hostages in exchange for money it would have gotten otherwise?
Burkina Faso's President Roch Kabore hailed the hostages' release and offered condolences to the soldiers' families.
Like many released hostages, he feels guilt for those who did not make it out alive.
The weapons had been sold to Iran to speed the release of American hostages in Lebanon.
Efforts to free the family had stalled repeatedly, and the family's time as hostages was harsh.
Cut from Ronald Reagan denying knowledge of arms-for-hostages to Trump denying collusion with Russia.
"Should we see if any of the other hostages want to cut a deal?" he jokes.
Two days before that, radical Islamists in Bangladesh killed 20 hostages, including 3 American college students.
Paray said he would release the hostages as long as no one tried to trick him.
He's also taken the hostages' release as opportunities to laud his own skills as a negotiator.
It has this year decapitated two Canadian hostages and held Norwegian, Indonesian, Malaysian and Japanese citizens.
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He successfully negotiated the surrender of hostages during the 1993 Chase Manhattan bank robbery in Brooklyn.
Mr. Reed, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Kissinger met again three days after the hostages were taken.
The attack stalled the transfer of the civilians and delayed the release of the Qatari hostages.
The hostages were released on January 21, 1981, the same day as Ronald Reagan&aposs inauguration.
It played on a runway tarmac to welcome the American hostages back from Iran in 1981.
Military officials were initially not certain if any hostages were taken and whether they included children.
During an Oval Office meeting in March, O'Brien celebrated Trump for his success returning American hostages.
The French police start their assault on the two attackers who had retreated upstairs with hostages.
A week later, Israeli commandos rescued the hostages in a nighttime mission at the Entebbe Airport.
The freed hostages appeared to be healthy but were not immediately allowed to speak to reporters.
The two men have given Kurdish SDF forces details about potential burial locations of the hostages.
They have killed soldiers in ambushes — and kept others alive as hostages of their guerrilla movement.
The Nazis came and made people essentially hostages in the church until they eventually marched away.
The poor subjects became such hostages to gratification that they stopped eating, drinking, even having sex.
Iran released the hostages in 1981 because of Jimmy Carter's negotiations, not because of Reagan's toughness.
It was a game where you had a helicopter and you rescued hostages in the desert.
SWAT officers stormed the club at around 5am to rescue the hostages and kill the suspect.
To take the most recent example: On Thursday, Trump tweeted that "the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail"—but only one of those hostages was detained before Trump took office.
Considered a centrist by many voters when he won the White House in 1976, Carter by 2023 was sullied by high oil prices, raging inflation and American hostages still imprisoned in Iran after an aborted rescue mission (Iran freed the hostages the day Reagan was inaugurated).
Widodo thanked the Philippines government and the various parties who helped secure the release of the hostages.
SWAT officers had severed a water main while tearing down a wall to rescue hostages, officials said.
Changes have also been made to improve information sharing between the government and the families of hostages.
"I got back our hostages; I never paid them anything," he said at a September news conference.
But the fact that North Korea took all of those steps, hostages released, missiles stopped being fired.
Several former hostages however, have said they were tortured by masked British-accented men matching their descriptions.
"We haven't had nuclear testing, missile launches, rocket launches…we got back hostages and prisoners," Trump listed.
In 2002, 120 hostages were killed when police stormed a Moscow theater to end another hostage-taking.
I didn't do what Obama did: Give them $1.8 billion in cash to get back four hostages.
A total of 235 hostages were also rescued, including one Argentinian, two Sri Lankans, and two Bangladeshis.
But on Thursday, photos began to circulate of what appeared to be the bodies of the hostages.
But if you are playing a weak political hand, hostages can be a source of enormous power.
French media said it was unclear if the man was armed or if there were any hostages.
The fear was the hostages would be killed if the police forced their way in, he said.
He threatens to put explosive vests on four hostages and to detonate the vests in 27 minutes.
"I got back our hostages; I never paid them anything," he said during a September news conference.
Patients may feel like hostages negotiating for their health, even when doctors actively encourage conversation, Berry added.
It's worth remembering that Iran released our hostages the day Reagan... (BELL RINGING) CRUZ: ... Was sworn in.
The attackers took hostages and exchanged gunfire with police until soldiers moved in and killed the militants.
Bangladesh cafe attack: Two arrested but families say they were hostages Karim was also denied bail Wednesday.
The dozens of hostages freed were in a ship hijacked south of the Seychelles in March 2012.
Hostages malnourished John Steed of Oceans Beyond Piracy said the crew of Naham 3 was released Saturday.
And it was just a few weeks ago that three hostages were brought back from North Korea.
Certainly when it comes to freeing American hostages, the Trump administration has a good story to tell.
They can also calm criminals who may consider harming hostages to induce distraught relatives to pay up.
ISIS has previously taken civilian hostages and maximized casualties and blamed their enemies for the civilian deaths.
Ramzan Kadyrov says the gunmen attempted to take people hostages inside the Archangel Michael Church on Saturday.
The two freed British hostages said they were "very grateful for the excellent support" they had received.
The standoff ended when Owens was shot while exiting the building with the hostages, the statement said.
He had refused to restart the negotiations until the ELN freed all hostages and stopped criminal activities.
One was the airport's logistics supervisor, according to Agencia Brasil, which said the hostages were released unharmed.
"Going after hostages is not the same thing as going after the terrorists holding them," he said.
Sometimes militants release similar "proof of life" videos of hostages when asking for ransom money, he added.
Arthurs told his hostages he was "upset due to America bombing his Muslim countries," the affidavit states.
And on Tuesday, we learned that the Obama administration had paid $400 million in ransom for hostages.
They were notorious for their role in the kidnap, torture and killing of Western hostages in Syria.
Napa County Fire Captain Chase Beckman also told the Associated Press that the shooter has taken hostages.
North Korea relationship is best it has ever been with U.S. No testing, getting remains, hostages returned.
The freed hostages will be transported to a Bama camp for internally displaced people, the army said.
And while Gloria didn't make it out of the fence after the hostages, one inmate did: Pennsatucky.
They should be prosecuted for their crimes, including the kidnapping and beheading of American and other hostages.
The suspect was reportedly found with two gagged hostages, several rifles and a large collection of ammunition.
CNN reported that an armed man had barricaded himself inside the grocery store and may have hostages.
We trust that they will soon conclude, as his fellow hostages have confirmed, that Tahmid is innocent.
The remaining four hostages were all freed on Saturday, the Congolese Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"We do not pay ransom for hostages," Mr. Obama said during a news conference at the Pentagon.
The only Christians that remain in the Plain of Nineveh are those who are held as hostages.
On Valentine's Day, rather than engage with his opponents, Bezos shot the hostages and canceled the deal.
Cochetel also called for more help for hostages following their release, including medical, psychosocial and financial support.
A government spokesman said the Cameroonian army freed 18 hostages, including seven Swiss and five Italian nationals.
A group of gunmen who claimed allegiance to the group executed 22 civilian hostages in western Afghanistan.
But other high-profile hostages remain intractable problems for this administration, as they were in previous ones.
The rebels are holding at least 14 hostages - one Dutch, one Norwegian, five Filipinos and seven Indonesians.
Boko Haram has also taken hostages and forced them to raid cattle from other villages, it said.
That the Freeman children are hostages to their mother's impulsiveness makes their helplessness only that much worse.
When Giuliani began opining about U.S. hostages held in North Korea, senior staff were irritated and perplexed.
The White House view: Trump believes he got something — U.S. hostages returned from North Korea— for nothing.
The answer is that this is not really a story about hostages, or Reagan, or even Iran.
He suggested the funds were part of a deal to free the Qatari hostages without Baghdad's approval.
The hostages were released the next January, half an hour after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president.
He also blamed Western governments for failing to negotiate, noting that some hostages were released for ransoms.
CNN's Turkey affiliate also reported that hostages were being held at the military headquarters, according to Reuters.
Two other groups of high-profile hostages — women police officers and university professors — were released this year.
At their meeting, the Qataris were shown a proof of life — a recent video of the hostages.
During the summer, they tried to coax the government into negotiations by offering nine hostages for ransom.
Officials said there were 230 hostages among base employees, 36 of them Afghans and the rest foreigners.
The effort ultimately failed: The Burnham family paid the money, but Abu Sayyaf didn't release the hostages.
Abetted by Uganda's erratic dictator, Idi Amin, the hijackers held more than 100 hostages for a week.
They killed the hijackers and dozens of Ugandan soldiers, gathered the hostages and flew them to safety.
It was a disaster that left America humiliated — and left the hostages stuck for nine more months.
Wood ends her book with advice for those of us who have become hostages to our smartphones.
In 2014, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper traveled to North Korea and brought home US hostages.
Two Western hostages kidnapped in north Mali in 2011 are still being held by al Qaeda militants.
A common denominator among relatives of hostages, Ms. Briggs said, is their initial reaction to the news.
Somali pirates usually hijack ships and crew members for ransom and generally do not kill their hostages.
The Syrian deal was negotiated separately before the fate of the hostages became entwined with the talks.
Of 53 hostages, which includes an additional diplomat who was released early, an estimated 18 have died.
I didn't do what Obama did: Give them $1.8 billion in cash to get back four hostages.
The House passed a resolution on Wednesday urging Iran to release American prisoners being held as hostages.
There has been persistent speculation, however, that ransoms have been paid for most of the freed hostages.
Unlike relatives of other hostages, the Coleman family has posted video appeals for the couple's release online.
The callers often tell tales of hostages about to be executed or bombs about to go off.
We will not rest as we continue our work to bring the remaining American hostages back home!
The president has made it a priority to free American hostages abroad — and has had legitimate successes.
In May, Trump successfully got North Korea to release three American hostages that were being held there.
Somalia's pirates have seized few hostages of late, thanks largely to more use of armed guards on ships.
Afghanistan hostages It's the first time in five months we've heard anything about two teachers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
But he also acknowledged that by now ISIS would have likely "made some propaganda use" of their hostages.
Here's what we know about the three US hostages, considering no one has seen them since June 2017.
In 2015 — six years into his presidency — Obama admitted his administration had at times failed families of hostages.
That operation was similarly detected by al Qaeda fighters and the hostages were fatally shot during the raid.
The pair currently being held in Syria are accused of torturing the hostages they kept in their care.
We know that three hostages, four if you say Otto Warmbier, and obviously he passed away, were released.
The officials said several hostages remain inside the building, where the gunmen seized control of the third floor.
But in the meantime, we have our hostages back, the remains keep coming back, we have a relationship.
Several former hostages, however, have said they were tortured by masked British-accented men matching the men's descriptions.
At least one policeman has been killed by gunfire as officials work to secure the release of hostages.
Gunfire erupted on both sides, and the army later said it had rescued 14 of the 58 hostages.
Before the first Gulf War, Ali flew to Iraq to help negotiate the release of 15 American hostages.
Joshua Wheeler also was killed in Iraq while working with Kurdish forces to free hostages and Staff Sgt.
Those are the names of three American hostages North Korea held for months — and just agreed to release.
"The Cameroonian hostages were freed today and they are en route to Yaounde," Governor Grégoire Mvono told Reuters.
Your long-suffering Republican allies/hostages are finally getting tired of having to defend you all the time.
"So now here we are, and I guess the hostages will be released, and that's good," Fred said.
When Berry and colleagues were looking through sociology research about hostages, they saw a reluctance to challenge authority.
Quickly, let&aposs talk about what seems to be happening in front of our history, three hostages released.
The Obama administration was criticized for its feckless response when ISIS was holding four American hostages in Syria.
The hostages included the freelance journalist James Foley, whose brutal beheading in 2014 was videotaped and circulated online.
Those discussions also involved the freeing of 26 Qatari hostages held by unidentified gunmen in Iraq, he said.
Over the past two years, successive Nigerian governments have been criticized for failing to recover the young hostages.
A gunman who took hostages in a weekend standoff at a Los Angeles supermarket has appeared in court.
An airport spokeswoman said no one was hurt during the assault, but did not comment on potential hostages.
He exhausted every option before you go in there and rescue the hostages, and that&aposs the point.
Santos reiterated to reporters Friday afternoon that no official talks would begin until the group frees all hostages.
Contacts began in February, when Tillerson briefed Trump on the situation with Americans hostages detained in North Korea.
When he was off the phone, he kept talking, sometimes to himself, and sometimes addressing the hostages directly.
At the same time they dismiss rumours that a group of attackers had taken hostages in a bar.
Cabinet-level officials consistently raised the fate of US hostages with foreign counterparts and asked for specific help.
It's captured territory in Mali and taken hostages before -- often Europeans -- in countries such as Niger and Mauritania.
After the gunman shot the police chief, the two hostages ran away and were not harmed, DeWine said.
He was particularly critical that the Iran deal did not include the safe return of several American hostages.
According to Tiara, the shooter began talking to the hostages about race, religion and violence against his people.
Moments before she and the rest of the hostages were evacuated, Akyra died in her lap, she says.
The deaths of the hostages did not mean the raid was not the right decision at the time.
The problem, of course, is that paying ransom to hostage-takers only encourages them to take more hostages.
Napa County Fire captain Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken hostages at the veterans home in California.
Residents and even some aid workers denounce hostages taken by Boko Haram as willing participants in the insurgency.
In May, Giuliani teased the release of the three U.S. hostages from North Korea before any formal announcements.
Believing American hostages' lives were at stake, he sent an agent 80 increasingly overheated messages in 113 days.
Ecuador's government said in a statement on Tuesday it would make every necessary effort to liberate the hostages.
Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick told BBC News about his experience as one of the palace's hostages in 2014.
The new Islamist government was holding American hostages, and shouts of "death to America" were filling the streets.
But Ms. Thompson also sought leads from people close to the events, including former hostages and their survivors.
The group is known to be holding 22 other hostages, including a Dutch bird-watcher kidnapped in 2012.
His book We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnappings, Hostages and Ransom is out this month.
In 277, Somali pirates hijacked 234 ships and took over 24,000 hostages, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
There's a difference between how these two types of hostages are treated by the U.S. government, Simon said.
PENCE: ... on the day that Iran released four American hostages... KAINE: We stopped Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
Armenia's national security service called on the gunmen to lay down their arms, free the hostages and surrender.
The US military supported the French-led operation to free the four hostages, according to two US officials.
He said female hostages had reported being trained during their captivity — both in the Quran and in violence.
The hostages were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group alleged.
She's with the Hand on a truck full of hostages — all of whom have directly benefited from Daredevil.
When viewed from a clinical psychologist's perspective, Trump controls his following much like a captor compels his hostages.
"They have promised many times it's their first priority, to bring back our hostages," Mr. Wang's wife said.
Somalia's government had earlier said the gunmen took hostages, but there were no immediate details on their fate.
And in May, Trump secured the release of three American hostages who were being held in North Korea.
Playing the help at a hotel, they spring into action when terrorists storm the building and take hostages.
"We in Russian PEN have become hostages of East and West at the same moment," Mr. Bitov complained.
At Christmas, he pardoned six Reagan administration officials who had been involved in the arms-for-hostages scandal.
The gang was known to sell hostages to a powerful local affiliate of Al Qaeda, the officials said.
"One of the rescued hostages revealed that Mahmud was dead and was buried last night," the general said.
The Pakistanis said the hostages, captured in Afghanistan in 2012, were tracked as they were moved across Pakistan.
He leads a faction of Abu Sayyaf, a decades-old militant group best known for taking foreign hostages.
The U.S. already has two British men in custody who tortured and killed Western hostages, according to officials.
A local judge was called in to negotiate the release of hostages, and he's now facing death threats.
The hostages were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group said.
The state news media said that 16 of the hostages were later released and that three had escaped.
The crisis only stopped when Iran agreed to release the hostages in exchange for Iranian assets being unfrozen.
The book doesn't shy away from Carter's failings, particularly his inability to bring home American hostages from Iran.
ISIS has previously featured American hostages like James Foley and Steven Sotloff in propaganda videos of their beheadings.
Yet Trump's opponents should not underestimate the political impact that freeing hostages can have on the public imagination.
On Friday, the humanitarian agency said the group claimed to have killed four of the remaining five hostages.
Community leaders in the area were called in to help in negotiations to rescue the hostages, Padilla said.
"This wouldn't happen with all of these hostages and detainees without the support of the President," he said.
As the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, he has doggedly pursued the release of American hostages abroad.
The government claimed soldiers looted weapons and took a number of hostages; 27 of the dissidents were arrested.
The Germans accused the Turks of taking hostages to pressure Germany to hand over several wanted Turkish citizens.
He added that the hostages could be released in the coming days as a gesture of good will.
The hostages were eventually released to the United States, following failed diplomatic and military attempts to rescue them.
North Korea frees three American hostages; Pakistan passes a sweeping anti-discrimination bill for the country's transgender population.
I have been saying that Facebook doesn't really have users or customers, they have hostages, at this point.
That was precisely the rationale Reagan used when he reiterated the policy in 1985 after TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Shiite terrorists who executed a US Navy diver and threatened to kill more hostages unless dozens of militants were freed from Israeli jails (the remaining hostages were eventually released unharmed).
Introducing O'Brien to reporters on the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport, Trump hailed his "tremendous track record" securing the release of hostages and said "we know each other well," adding "Robert's been fantastic" as a hostage negotiator and that the US hasn't spent any money to secure the hostages' release.
One witness, Olympia de Maismont, said that "several hostages had been freed" and that intermittent gunfire could be heard.
North Korea is expected to release three American hostages soon, and missile tests have paused amid the diplomatic blitz.
I also think that Japan wants to hear that they&aposre going to have their hostages released as well.
Later that week, Dr. John Edlund, a medical examiner, revealed that all the hostages had died of gunshot wounds.
Now, there hasn&apost been a single rocket fired in months, American hostages, thank God, they have come home.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Avakov, said employees at the post office and customers had been among the hostages.
The Elysee statement added that two of the hostages were French citizens, named as Patrick Picque and Laurent Lassimouillas.
In the first operation, eight Yemeni, Saudi and Ethiopian hostages were freed and seven al Qaeda militants were killed.
When Bamsch and Daughtery dozed off, the alleged hostages fled the home, running to a neighbor's to call 911.
It came to international prominence in 2014 when the group began releasing videos depicting its fighters beheading Western hostages.
They just knew three men were about to be executed — so they tricked their captors and freed the hostages.
The group also caused global revulsion with beheadings of hostages from countries including the United States, Britain and Japan.
Last month, 10 Indonesian hostages were released by Abu Sayyaf, and several days later four remaining Indonesians were freed.
Three former hostages interviewed by BuzzFeed News said they'd been given new clothes and shoes before returning to Dapchi.
Foley also said she hopes the US military can locate American hostages held abroad and bring them back home.
Bouteflika was shown on camera embracing Carlos at the airport before they sat down to negotiate the hostages' release.
"Bone Tomahawk" follows a misfit rescue party that sets out to save hostages from a group of savage cannibals.
The source said removing clothes from hostages was a usual practice of terrorist groups trying to avoid being tracked.
On July 1, attackers stormed a popular bakery in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and seized dozens of hostages.
Now, he has had personally negotiated the release much three American hostages there, he gets no credit for that.
A Taliban commander in Afghanistan said civilian hostages were being divided into small groups to be sent back home.
Some hostages who escaped alleged they were detained and tortured by security forces who suspected them to be militants.
Still, Jesus prevails and they find themselves with a lot of hostages they don't know what to do with.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office deputies took the suspect into custody and freed the alleged hostages at around 11:10 a.m.
Several of them were shown beheading hostages of the ultra-hardline militant group, a tactic it has frequently used.
Officers who eventually entered the room where the hostages were being held found all four bodies there, police said.
But I came to realize that's an entitled comparison, as hostages don't get a salary, medical, or vision benefits.
The assault ended early Saturday when Bangladeshi troops stormed the scene killing the six attackers and rescuing 13 hostages.
An informal communications channel had been opened with Islamic State to try to release the hostages, the source said.
The 2,000-strong ELN, which has regularly bombed oil infrastructure and taken hostages, has continued kidnapping despite the ceasefire.
The rivalry lasted until Vance resigned after the aborted mission to rescue American hostages in Iran in April 1980.
As the standoff unfolded live on television, Rolando Mendoza began killing hostages, and Philippines SWAT officers stormed the bus.
The family said they had never seen the men before, who did not explain why they had taken hostages.
According to The Mercury News, the gunman took a clinical worker, a psychiatrist and an executive director as hostages.
According to Carter, the force will conduct raids, seize places and people, and free ISIS-held hostages and prisoners.
"It may set the stage having other hostages be taken by countries that are enemies of ours," Bush said.
I'm talking about the calculated risk that was taken to decide that five hostages were enough for this deal.
The militants are holding at least 14 hostages to ransom - one Dutch, one Norwegian, five Filipinos and seven Indonesians.
He became internationally known after participating in videos released by ISIS that claim to show the murders of hostages.
We've encouraged them, frankly, to take more hostages and put more American lives at risk of being taken hostage.
Perhaps most importantly, it would contradict the wishes of the families of the hostages allegedly murdered by these men.
In early 2018, Kurdish forces captured two British men who participated in jailing Ms. Mueller and abusing Western hostages.
Mr. Usman said the rescued girl had described how Boko Haram tried to shield the hostages from aerial surveillance.
Maria tries to take Gloria's credit, telling Nita it was all because of her that the hostages were released.
Trump contends that he didn't give Kim any concessions while winning the release in May of three American hostages.
He also denied the argument that if the U.S. employs torture methods, American hostages would be treated even worse.
Emory University in Atlanta said in a statement that two of its students were among hostages who were killed.
Twenty of the hostages were killed, as were two officers and six of the seven attackers, according to CNN.
We've encouraged them, frankly, to take more hostages and put more American lives at risk of being taken hostage.
Americans made up 20% of those hostages taken since 2001, and half of those were killed by their captors.
" He criticized the Obama administration's approach to Iran as not being focused enough on "the unconditional release of hostages.
But other assailants were still holding some hostages and one had set off a suicide bomb, the officials said.
Delta was also involved in a failed effort to retrieve hostages from the US Embassy in Iran in 1980.
Several news reports indicated that the group was seeking about $6.4 million in ransom for each of the hostages.
But only in the last three years have such armed groups shown an interest in taking hostages for ransom.
Special forces end the siege, but use a poison gas in the process which kills many of the hostages.
But Republicans have seized on the timing to accuse the administration of paying a ransom to free the hostages.
The women in the labyrinth of mud houses are not prisoners , but hostages tosuperstition, poverty, and lack of education.
After taking hostages and an hours-long standoff, Mateen was killed in a shootout with police shortly before 6am.
After taking hostages and an hours-long standoff, Mateen was killed in a shootout with police shortly before 2003am.
"The troops also liberated over 5,000 persons held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists," it said in an emailed statement.
They are still unable to confirm any hostages, the total number of injuries or casualties or the shooter's motivation.
Duque, who took office in August, has conditioned peace talks on the ELN suspending hostilities and releasing all hostages.
Mr. Trump has taken deterrence to a previously unimaginable extreme, committing extortion with child hostages to dissuade asylum seekers.
The Trump administration has made it a priority to seek the release of American hostages and prisoners detained overseas.
Three hostages dressed in orange jumpsuits were killed in a video the jihadists sent to goad payments for others.
She was equally harsh when describing the videos she had seen of the beheaded Western hostages, The Times said.
Just before the Qatari hostages were taken, Iran had begun a bold effort to make this demographic transfer happen.
Inside, waiting in a large reception room, were the nonroyal hostages, who had been held in a separate location.
Early in her tenure, Mr. Trump asked for updates on hostages held in North Korea, Iran, Yemen and elsewhere.
"We were told that the US government will not exchange hostages — period," Jim Coleman told Circa News in November.
Even with the changes, meanwhile, American hostages die in captivity far more often than those from other Western countries.
Mr. Genser and the family's other son, Babak, have described the Namazis as hostages and have asserted their innocence.
At the same time that the cost of keeping hostages has increased, the risk to you also has increased.
They pay no penalty for lying, violating norms, or taking legislative hostages, so they keep doing it, keep escalating.
The Amarillo Police Department has confirmed the suspect was shot by its SWAT team and all hostages are safe.
Even so, the authorities spent hours on the phone with Paray, asking for him to give up the hostages.
His exploits included fighting in wars, rescuing hostages, searching for a lost city and staging a farcical aborted coup.
But the troops also found scores of hostages massacred, including nuns hacked to death and priests with throats cut.
"We have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago)," he tweeted.
Forty years ago, Oman played host to the eventually unsuccessful bid to rescue the American embassy hostages in Tehran.
Republicans have criticized the $1.3 billion in payments, arguing there is a link to Iran's release of several hostages.
When the US continues to do business with countries holding Americans as hostages, no good can come of it.
Nearly all those exchanged on Saturday had nothing to do with the fighting and were more hostages than prisoners.
A secret US mission to rescue the hostages went awry when two helicopters collided while refueling, killing eight troops.
An official identified them as members of a group of British fighters tied to the killings of Western hostages.
They correctly see fiscal, trade and structural policies as dying hostages to Republicans' paralysis of their own executive authority.
The inmates who surrendered provided officials with information about the barricades and the locations of hostages, Mr. Coupe said.
Politically, his ability to free hostages fits into an essential aspect of his presidency: his theatrical style of politics.
Eight were Syrian, and they were soon released, but the five foreigners remained hostages until the end of May.
It has long been believed the hostages he beheaded in a series of violent videos were killed outside Raqqa.
Mr. Emwazi was shown in videos in late 2014 and early 2015 killing several American and other Western hostages.
Special forces end the siege, but use a poison gas in the process which kills many of the hostages.
Another militant later killed a policewoman and took hostages at a supermarket, killing four before police shot him dead.
At least 27 hostages, many of them foreign crewmen, remain in the hands of Abu Sayyaf factions, he said.
"People have the right to take their children wherever they want, we can't take them as hostages," he said.
He was promoted to deputy chief of authentication in December 1979, just after the hostages were taken in Iran.
Amin himself kept visiting Entebbe, making speeches to the hostages with basically two themes: We must hope that your home governments are sensible about your predicament and will accede to the hijackers' demands; and we want to make sure that you, though hostages, are as comfortable as possible in a concrete airport building.
In Riyadh, the Saudi foreign ministry said the two Saudi hostages landed there on a private jet late on Friday.
The gunman at one point ordered some hostages out of the bathroom, only to shoot them when they ran outside.
Authorities secured the hostages' release by promising not to prosecute the villagers, and by pledging to re-examine their complaint.
Yet 54 hostages, held on land by various groups of Somali pirates, have been freed in the last several years.
Police would not immediately confirm whether the person holding the hostages was armed or describe the nature of his demands.
The identity of the kidnappers is still unknown, and the American and South Korean hostages, who are female, remain unnamed.
We know that he crossed the DMZ, he released three American hostages, he&aposs willing to talk about the denuclearization.
Fortunately for the hostages, all of whom eventually made it home alive, and for US Middle East relations, Laird prevaricated.
When we think of war crimes, we typically think of actions like taking hostages, torturing prisoners, or enlisting child soldiers.
Police negotiated with Mateen for about three hours before breaking a hole in the wall, which allowed hostages to escape.
But it's also a huge win for Trump, who has had remarkable success securing the release of US hostages abroad.
Two police officers and 21 captives were killed in July when armed gunmen stormed an upscale cafe and took hostages.
That's big: Washington and Pyongyang only hold diplomatic talks about very specific issues, like releasing US hostages from North Korea.
CHRIS HAYES, MSNBC HOST: Tearing migrant children away from their parents, reportedly in some cases, holding those children as hostages.
Two hostages were killed in 2014 during a 17-hour siege by a "lone wolf" gunman in a Sydney cafe.
People also imagined Chuck and Nancy in other situations, like selling life insurance, or giving evidence of life as hostages.
In January 2015, officers from the BRI entered the kosher supermarket in Paris where gunman Amedy Coulibaly was holding hostages.
And I understand that in addition to the $150 billion, they're getting hostages, also, or they're getting some prisoners released.
In 2015 — six years into his presidency — then-President Obama admitted his administration had at times failed families of hostages.
One month after the mass kidnapping, the militants rolled back into Dapchi and brought back the hostages — all but six.
And when they had to send him home -- by the way, I got the prisoners back and the hostages back.
That toll included the two hostages, whose remains were taken to Tripoli's only functioning airport to await repatriation to Serbia.
Italian and Indian nationals are among the hostages, said a duty officer at the Rapid Action Battalion's (RAB) control room.
"Payments conditioned on the release of hostages are ransom payments, no matter what other dispute they are intended to settle."
What they don&apost report is that President Trump, he gave up nothing for the release of the three hostages.
The group has repeatedly released videos threatening to kill the hostages if the Canadian Government doesn't fork over a ransom.
"It's against the policy of the United States to pay ransom for hostages," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
The G1 news website, quoting Milagres Mayor Lielson Landim, reported that the five dead hostages belonged to the same family.
He is also thought to have been involved in running a prison in Raqqa, Syria, where foreign hostages were held.
One Japanese national and two Sri Lankans were among the hostages rescued, officials from both nations told the news network.
They lose if we buy into a "both sides" argument that turns these children into hostages for immigration legislation negotiations.
Gunmen kill 226 hostages and two police officers before authorities raid the restaurant and end the nearly 227-hour standoff.
The families of both men, and other hostages who were released, say the attackers forced the men to carry weapons.
At around 4 PM, a brass band called Los Rehenes (the Hostages) began to play, and everybody immediately stopped talking.
But the Okapi spokeswoman said all the fatalities occurred during the initial attack and that there were never any hostages.
US: China may build military base in Pakistan Rescue attempt Hua said authorities had been trying to rescue the hostages.
President Trump directs Secretary Tillerson to take all appropriate measures to secure the release of American hostages in North Korea.
The prisoners, about 1,300 incarcerated people inside the prison, had taken control of the prison, seized hostages, and issued demands.
In November, the hostages appeared before several militants brandishing an IS flag demanding $100-million in exchange for their release.
He has urged the 2,000-strong National Liberation Army (ELN) to free all hostages as a condition for resuming dialogue.
Rami's words followed the beheading of two Canadian hostages who were also kidnapped from the Oceanview Marina on Samal Island.
Last month it freed two hostages, which President Juan Manuel Santos had set as a condition for starting formal talks.
An active shooter with a rifle has taken three hostages at the nation's largest retirement home for veterans, authorities confirmed.
The hostages were not to know it, but their jailers had much more in common than the way they spoke.
A Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team was sent inside the club to rescue the hostages at approximately 5 a.m.
He added that the hostages were retrieved in a "rescue operation" and there was "no deal" with the Haqqani Network.
After the hostages were recovered, they were taken to the town of Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan.
An earlier version of the headline with this article misstated the occupations of the 10 hostages held in the Philippines.
" What Trump said: "North Korea relationship is best it has ever been with U.S. No testing, getting remains, hostages returned.
"We've gone from a hostage situation to a barricade because all the hostages were taken out safely," Ross told reporters.
"Not since medieval times have people seen what's going on," Mr. Trump said of hostages decapitated by the Islamic State.
The terrorists reportedly told parents, as they returned the hostages, not to allow their daughters to go back to school.
"We hope the Taliban immediately releases the hostages," a spokesman for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
Experts were divided on whether the return of hostages would prove to be a significant step toward denuclearizing the peninsula.
When it barters political prisoners for its own gain, the Venezuelan government is, in effect, turning them into hostages. Opinion
As dozens of hostages fled through the approximately three-foot hole, the police said Mr. Mateen came out too, firing.
"(The) hostages freed consisted mostly of women, children and elderly people," Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary told a news conference.
Mr. Khan was beaten and both men were taken into police custody after the 11-hour siege, other hostages said.
The subject can derail restaurant conversation, make hostages of dinner-party guests and drive a wedge between host and guest.
In April, after murdering Canadian hostage Ridsdel, the group reset the deadline to June 13 for the remaining three hostages.
Other hostages had been made to recite long denunciations of America and been videoed as the knife reached their throat.
Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 219 months.
More than 330 hostages lost their lives, including at least 180 children, when the siege ended in a gun battle.
The group took more than 170 hostages, killing 30 and injuring another 50 people at the four-star Splendid hotel.
An initial reimbursement was released after the Iran deal was implemented and to help secure the release of American hostages.
Abu Mohammed told me that he and the other hostages feared some kind of snag right to the very end.
Three people reportedly left the building shortly before Williams shot himself, but it is not clear whether they were hostages.
When one of the hostages joins the shooter's side, hashtagging the slaughter #GoodFriday, it's a step too far into folly.
As tributes to the fallen soldiers poured on social media, so did expressions of anger at the two former hostages.
Too often, season five turns such torture — or even suggested sexual assault of the guards-now-hostages — into a joke.
Although 270 of them were eventually released, the jihadists had also used hostages for booby-trapped cars and suicide bombings.
The American troops from the 20th Infantry Regiment had taken hostages — local volunteers — at an airfield and a beachside village.

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