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Taken prisoner by the Japanese Another popular theory is that Earhart and Noonan landed in the Marshall Islands, were taken prisoner by the Japanese, and died in captivity in Saipan.
Allied casualties numbered around 17,000; thousands more were taken prisoner.
Admiral Jim Stockdale was taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.
But two were taken prisoner after Mr. Trump took office.
It said he had been taken prisoner on Dec. 11.
Eight soldiers were killed, and six others were taken prisoner.
At least 17 security forces were taken prisoner by the Taliban.
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Eight security forces were killed and were 240 taken prisoner. Sept.
Two of them were taken prisoner after Mr. Trump took office.
They were attacked by Lannister forces and taken prisoner in season two.
Two ANCOP soldiers were killed, with eight wounded and two taken prisoner.
One soldier and two police officers were taken prisoner by the Taliban.
Taken prisoner by the soldiers, Afsana escapes by picking the locks on her handcuffs.
Ten police officers were killed and two others were taken prisoner in the attack.
Nine police officers were taken prisoner by the Taliban after they captured the outpost.
The film begins when 11 of Jan's comrades are taken prisoner by Nazi soldiers.
Ten Afghan forces were killed, eight were wounded and five others were taken prisoner.
Stephen Uurtamo, nearly seven decades after he was taken prisoner by the Chinese and died.
It said that a large number of Houthi fighters were either killed or taken prisoner.
Five police officers were killed, four security forces were wounded and two were taken prisoner.
Two members were killed and another was taken prisoner by insurgents during the attacks. Dec.
At least 20 soldiers were killed and nine others were taken prisoner by the Taliban.
At least 24 security forces were taken prisoner and one other was wounded in the clashes.
Ten soldiers were killed, three were wounded and one was taken prisoner in the clashes. Dec.
Two officers were taken prisoner and a Humvee was destroyed in the three hours of fighting.
Most were killed, though some escaped and a few were taken prisoner, according to General Aboda.
And then being taken prisoner in North Korea and making the decision to betray the West.
Six brothers from the family were taken prisoner, accused of being members of the Islamic State.
Rahmani, 22, was taken prisoner in the Baghlan-e-Markazi District and killed on the spot.
Nine Lebanese soldiers were taken prisoner during fighting in the Arsal area of northeastern Lebanon in 2014.
An Ottoman noble is taken prisoner and compelled to work the farm belonging to a Montenegrin peasant.
They said 40 other Houthis were taken prisoner but denied that any women or children were among them.
Instead, he was thrown into the back of a pickup truck and taken prisoner by a local warlord.
A few days after Churchill was taken prisoner, Lady Randolph hosted a war benefit for a hospital ship.
The SDF also was responsible for thousands of ISIS members and supporters being taken prisoner during the conflict.
One of the 18 died in the fighting, the remaining 17 were taken prisoner but freed months later.
At least 15 border forces were killed in the clashes and six more were taken prisoner by insurgents.
Two local police officers were killed, three others were wounded and four officers were taken prisoner by insurgents.
It was the first time Iran had confirmed that any of its combatants had been taken prisoner in Syria.
At first, it seemed that Thomas Talley would escape this wave of the bloody assault; he was taken prisoner.
Abdul Hakim, the district governor of Poshti Koh, said 18 officers had been killed and 23 others taken prisoner.
At least 20 members of the security forces were killed, 15 were wounded and another 10 were taken prisoner.
When it's attacked by Boko Haram, he's taken prisoner along with the students and their teacher, Na'omi (Nondumiso Tembe).
In February, he was caught in the city of Málaga, as it fell to Franco's forces, and taken prisoner.
He knew that because some soldiers taken prisoner began calling their friends still on the base at the Taliban's urging.
That year, Louis Napoléon went seeking glory on the battlefield, only to be defeated and taken prisoner by the Prussians.
A spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, posted photos on his Twitter feed that he claimed were of the Afghan soldiers taken prisoner.
But it actually looks like a war, with military-style armaments, random violence, and significant numbers of people taken prisoner.
At least 216 Afghan security forces were killed, eight police officers were wounded and four police officers were taken prisoner.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that 22 members of Syrian government forces died and 80 were taken prisoner.
At least 13 soldiers and one pro-government militia member were killed, three were wounded and two others were taken prisoner.
Walter Sears was a World War I veteran who, his daughters say, had been gassed and taken prisoner by the Germans.
He was taken prisoner in the early months of the war, and spent 8+ years as a Prisoner of War in Iran.
Gallagher, 40, was acquitted of murder in the killing of a teenage ISIS fighter who was taken prisoner in 2017 in Iraq.
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But King Richard was taken prisoner by Duke Leopold of Austria during the Crusades, leaving Prince John free to take the throne.
Theon flees and floats away (is Alfie Allen made of wood?) as his sister is taken prisoner with Tyene and Ellaria Sand.
Hitler also issued his infamous Commando Order mandating that Allied soldiers taken prisoner behind German lines would be shot on the spot.
Haftar was taken prisoner by the Chadians and had to be rescued by the CIA after having worked from Chad to overthrow Gaddafi.
At that instant, a man emerged from the mass of Somalis surrounding the battered pilot and proclaimed that he would be taken prisoner.
Three local police officers were killed in the fighting and four others were taken prisoner and then killed the same day by insurgents.
There were 15 local police officers in the outpost: four were killed, seven of them were taken prisoner and four others are missing.
During his presidential campaign, Trump also famously questioned McCain's heroism, saying he wasn't a war hero because he was taken prisoner in Vietnam.
Fifteen soldiers and five police officers were killed, eight police officers were wounded and four police officers were taken prisoner in the clashes.
Ms. Chung's father was a helicopter pilot in the South Vietnamese Air Force when he was taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 6333.
Taking a dive Following the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, more than 1,000 CIA-trained Cuban exiles were taken prisoner by Castro's forces.
Insiders quoted in both books argue that Mrs May was almost "taken prisoner" by her co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.
His mother had fled the North, leaving behind family members; his paternal uncle was never seen again after being taken prisoner by the North.
Three police officers were killed and five others were taken prisoner in a Taliban attack on a police outpost in Bala Bolok District. Sept.
"Was captured the 6th of January 1945," he wrote in his first journal entry after being taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
An American freelance journalist believed to have been taken prisoner by the Haqqani network in eastern Afghanistan has been held for at least three years.
He suffered multiple broken bones, was tortured and beaten and refused to be released ahead of other U.S. soldiers who were taken prisoner before him.
Mr. Foley was unusual in that he was taken prisoner once before, in Libya in 2011, and after his release soon went back into harm's way.
According to Gary Leupp, a professor of history at Tufts University, Yasuke was taken prisoner by Oda's enemies but later released because he was not Japanese.
Qhorin Halfhand, another senior Night's Watchman taken prisoner by the wildlings, has Jon kill him so the Free Folk see him as being on their side.
The self-proclaimed queen of the seven kingdoms was famously deprived of her long blonde locks after being taken prisoner by the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce).
His father was one of thousands of Polish officers taken prisoner and killed by the Russians in the Katyn Forest in western Russia and other locations.
Rajuma and her family tried to run but were quickly captured and marched to a riverbank where hundreds of other terrified villagers had been taken prisoner.
The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the five-year-old war in Syria, said 22 members of Syrian government forces died and 80 were taken prisoner.
But, once Bouck and his men were taken prisoner and the German paratroopers searched the woods, they learned that less than a platoon had stopped them.
Fear of weakness helps explain why Trump mocked John McCain for being taken prisoner, why he mocked a disabled reporter, why he's been so consistently racist.
Dayne Walling, who was the mayor of Flint when Mr. Hekmati was taken prisoner, said he was not surprised by the attention Mr. Hekmati's situation had attracted.
Edmure Tully, married into the Frey family at the Red Wedding and then taken prisoner, he's now the Lord of Riverrun and Lord Paramount of the Trident.
The gathering was for the anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, a Hazara leader who died in 1995 after being taken prisoner by the Taliban.
In June 2014 she was taken prisoner during a botched mission, smuggled into Russia and arrested for allegedly directing artillery fire that killed two Russian television journalists.
The French army, which has about 4,500 troops in West Africa battling Islamist militants, did not specify whether the jihadists had all been killed or taken prisoner.
The hands, which had been bound, belonged to one of several civilians who had been taken prisoner and executed, their bodies left to be covered by snowfall.
They're soon taken prisoner by moon men, but a quick-witted astronomer clobbers the king and they escape, with one earthling vanquishing moon men with an umbrella.
However, following that Edmure was taken prisoner by the Freys and remained a prisoner, even being used as a hostage to try and negotiate the surrender of Riverrun.
Several thousand Danish soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner, and within months Denmark sued for peace, giving up its claims to Schleswig and Holstein in the process.
The theory that the Japanese captured Earhart isn't new: as NBC News reported, some locals on the Marshall Islands have insisted they saw Earhart crash before being taken prisoner.
Baffled by this turn of fortune's wheel, Mr. Lindh fled on foot to Kunduz, was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance, imprisoned and interrogated, and suffered severe physical harm.
Over the course of the week, 44 Afghan security force members were confirmed killed in Taliban assaults in Badghis, in addition to the 190 reported to be taken prisoner.
At least 16 soldiers were killed and 40 others taken prisoner in the initial attack, with up to 150 troops from other units eventually surrendering to the insurgents, too.
The gathering marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, an ethnic Hazara leader who was killed in 1995 after being taken prisoner by the Taliban.
On June 5, an Afghan commando was taken prisoner by the Taliban and then killed in Paktia Province, increasing the total number of pro-government forces deaths to 50.
Roddie Edmonds, an army officer taken prisoner in Germany, is being recognized for refusing, at gunpoint, a Nazi order to identify which of his fellow prisoners of war were Jewish.
"We always have a bullet ready to use on ourselves in case we are about to be taken prisoner," she said, rolling a Kalashnikov round between her thumb and forefinger.
Her father was jailed in India when he was a child, and during World War II, her mother and her family were taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines.
The Mid-Week Pictorial also featured some startlingly candid views of war, like the photograph below, showing German soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the French just before dawn.
But some North Korea experts have been urging the ban for some time, as a way both to squeeze the government and to prevent other Americans from being taken prisoner.
Khan and two police officers, as well as one of his civilian relatives, were killed in the attack, and another relative of the commander's was taken prisoner by insurgents. Dec.
The fate of its last commanders is still unknown — killed by bombardment or in battle, taken prisoner but unidentified, or hunkered into long-prepared hideouts to plot a new insurgency.
Twenty-one soldiers were taken prisoner by the insurgents during the attack on Thursday, according to a member of the Afghan Parliament, Ziauddin Akazi, who is from the same district.
But she publicly alleged for the first time on Monday, in a wrenching interview on Dr. Phil, that she also witnessed her boyfriend's murder before she was taken prisoner and raped.
Under the deal, Lebanon received the remains of nine soldiers taken prisoner by ISIS in 2014; the ISIS fighters received free passage to Deir al-Zour, 300 miles to the east.
The group made the safe-passage deal to try to win the freedom of its fighters in exchange for turning over the bodies of nine Lebanese soldiers taken prisoner in 2014.
"I AM Roman Sergeyevich Zabolotny, born in 1979, and I have been taken prisoner," says a Russian-speaking man in a video released last month by the jihadists of Islamic State (IS).
Reuters reported that Vietnamese citizens and U.S. citizens visiting the country have turned a monument near the site where he was captured and taken prisoner during the war into a makeshift memorial.
He and another member of his unit, Imamuddin Ibrahimkhel, were among a very few soldiers who were taken prisoner by the Taliban last August and eventually freed by the Afghan Special Forces.
In a separate incident, 15 soldiers were killed, seven others were wounded and two soldiers were taken prisoner when dozens of Taliban fighters attacked army outposts in the same district on Monday.
The brutal killing of Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kassasbeh serves as a harsh reminder of the consequences for pilots who eject over ISIS-held territory and are taken prisoner by the terror group.
The U.K. based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the conflict said at least 20 army soldiers were either killed, injured or taken prisoner in the past 24 hours, confirming rebel estimates.
In a speech shortly after announcing his presidential bid in 2628, Trump responded to criticism from McCain by saying "he's not a war hero" because he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese.
Since President Donald Trump's October 2019 announcement that US troops would retreat from their bases in northern Syria, many Islamic State fighters taken prisoner by the Kurds have also broken out of their prisons.
It was born from his experiences as a young Army private taken prisoner in World War II, witness to both the brutality of the German war machine and the catastrophic Allied firebombing of Dresden.
Trump drew similar opprobrium a year ago when he said McCain, who as a naval aviator was shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, was not a hero because he had been captured.
General Akar opposed the 2016 coup — he was taken prisoner on the night of the failed coup by rogue officers — and has overseen a comprehensive purge of the armed forces in the two years since.
There were also clear parallels when both speeches catalogued incidents in which American envoys and servicemen had been attacked overseas or taken prisoner by foreign foes, suggesting that the country was no longer feared or respected.
The European Union had placed Mr. Pavlov, a Russian citizen, on sanctions lists after he boasted in an interview of shooting 15 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during the fight for the Donetsk city airport.
The German boys — dispirited, exhausted, angry and defiant, if we can read their faces correctly — were huddled on the ground in Saint-Quentin, France, where they had been among many thousands taken prisoner by the Allies.
When he calls people names, declares them to be "low IQ" or observes that a man like John McCain wasn't a hero because he was taken prisoner in Vietnam, he attempts to deprive others of their dignity.
My grandparents, Jews from Lodz who fled east when the Nazis began their advance into Poland, had better luck than many: taken prisoner by the Soviets, they spent much of the war in a Siberian labor camp.
But after having been taken prisoner, videotaped and later beheaded by the Islamic State in August, Mr. Hojaji has been transformed by Iran's government into a war hero, the face of a new surge in Iranian nationalism.
The European Union placed Mr. Pavlov, a Russian citizen, on sanctions lists after he boasted in an interview of shooting 15 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during the fight for the Donetsk city airport in 2015.
The five years Bergdahl spent in brutal conditions in captivity after being taken prisoner by the Taliban do not diminish the pain of fellow service members who were injured during the futile hunt for him, Oshana said.
No, this is just a modern riff on the werewolf tale, one that treats mental illness as a curse (in some weird ways) and features the standard teen girl outsider taken prisoner and forced to fend for herself.
Through a series of complicated twists, the woman found someone she and her sister believed to be an uncle: a former Nazi soldier who had been taken prisoner during the war and later settled in the United States.
In most of the world, the Pakistani military is not an esteemed organization; it has lost every war it has ever fought, including one with India, in 1971, in which a third of the Army was taken prisoner.
He did not give recent casualty figures, but Afghan officials have said that last year 6,287 members of the military and police died and 12,354 were wounded, with more than 500 members of the security forces taken prisoner.
One applicant, Albert Slack, was a private in the 4th Royal Berkshire regiment when he was taken prisoner in May 13 and imprisoned in various camps, including the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, where he was forced to dig graves.
In the streaming service's new movie, real-life famed Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (Melissa Leo), her son, and her granddaughter are all taken prisoner by a former employee named David Waters (Josh Lucas), who plans on extorting $1 million from them.
Ibrahim Al-Jaafari said it was difficult to predict how long the battle would take, but more than 1,000 Islamic State fighters had been killed, 650 had been taken prisoner, and about one-third of the area had been freed.
Of the 46-man crew, four were killed when a water bomb was thrown at them while they were still in the water (apparently the result of a communication breakdown), 41 were taken prisoner, and one—quite incredibly—was able to escape.
The most important trials have mainly involved actions at the General Staff headquarters, where the senior military commanders were taken prisoner and asked to join the coup, and at the Akinci Air Base, which was used as the operations center for the coup.
"All of a sudden you find out your story and it's a terrible story because it's all about death, and then the people you love are taken prisoner, and then on top of that they want to change your name," he said.
For some family members, bringing the San Juan to shore would be the only way to put a final end to numerous conspiracy theories that have made the rounds since it disappeared — including one tale that the crew members were taken prisoner.
ISIS sells the women like chattel on smartphone apps The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when ISIS fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith.
The former Navy pilot is often described as a "war hero" in the media on account of the horrors he braved after his A-4 Skyhawk was shot down in October 19823 during a bombing run over Hanoi and taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese.
While Sergeant Edmonds's relatives knew he had been taken prisoner by the Germans after the Battle of the Bulge, he had said little about his experiences, telling his family that there were some things that were too difficult to talk about, said his son Chris Edmonds.
The former Navy pilot is often described as a "war hero" in the media on account of the horrors he braved when he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese after his A-4 Skyhawk was shot down in October 1967 during a bombing run over Hanoi.
A quilt made by Samuel Sadlowski, a tailor in the Prussian Army taken prisoner during the Napoleonic Wars, is dated 1806; it includes among its many fort blocks, a lovely pastoral frieze in appliqué illustrating the folk tale of a goose-stealing fox pursued by a hunter.
The fighting in Badghis began Saturday, when a Taliban attack killed eight soldiers, with six others taken prisoner, followed by Monday's much deadlier assault, according to an Afghan official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had been banned from talking to the news media.
And on Sunday, in Wardak Province, 14 Afghan Army soldiers were killed and two others were taken prisoner in an attack by a 100-man Taliban "Red Unit," its commando force, according to Ali Reza Zulfiqar, the commander of a special forces unit that responded to the attack.
"Ship to Gaza demands that those who have been taken prisoner and the ship and its cargo are returned to the location where the ship was boarded and are allowed to continue their journey in international and Palestinian waters unmolested, in accordance with international law," the group said in a statement.
Col. Leo K. Thorsness, one of the most highly decorated American airmen of the Vietnam War and a belated recipient of the Medal of Honor for his heroism on a mission that took place 11 days before he was shot down and taken prisoner, died on Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla.
Rick has been taken prisoner by Jadis and the Scavengers after failing to recruit them as allies, and his captivity brings the series to a scene fans have eagerly awaited ever since early promotion for Season 8 included the image of a blinded, feral zombie with a crude crown of nails.

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