Support our journalism by making your most generous year-end gift now. All gifts doubled until midnight, December 31.
U.S.-backed rebel forces have captured the city of Manbij from the Islamic State, whose grip on the city lasted two years but faltered after months of fighting.
... GWEN IFILL: Finally, Nick, for many Americans, the last thing they heard about this question of Boko Haram's strength in Nigeria has centered around hostage-taking, specifically about those Chibok girls. Where does this stand now? We keep hearing that thousands of hostages have been released, but not so ...
... GWEN IFILL: The Iran hostage crisis was one of the defining moments of the 1970s, and it fractured a relationship between two nations that has never healed. Now, 36 years after it began, the former hostages are finally getting compensation. It was November 4, 1979. The U.S. Embassy ...
WASHINGTON — The mother of American journalist James Foley, who was publicly beheaded in August 2014 by the Islamic State, says her family felt abandoned by the American government. She wants to see a review of the U.S. hostage policy. Testifying at a House hearing, Diane Foley of Rochester, New ...
... statement: Early today in Iraq, at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government, U.S. Special Operations Forces supported an Iraqi Peshmerga operation to rescue hostages at an ISIL prison near Hawijah, Iraq. This operation was deliberately planned and launched after receiving information that the hostages faced imminent mass execution ...
... death in the past, none have been confirmed. We apologize for the error. JUDY WOODRUFF: There's word of a new atrocity against an American hostage by the Islamic State group. The parents of Kayla Mueller said today that U.S. intelligence confirms she was repeatedly raped before her death ...
... kind of thing. But I think, if hostage-takers and the guards in particular were losing their lives on a consistent basis whenever they catch hostages, that would get the word out a lot more quickly. But that's different from saying that I think that every hostage case should ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: After coming under fire over the handling of American hostage cases abroad, President Obama today announced a change in policy. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We're not going to abandon you. We will stand by you. JUDY WOODRUFF: The president's pledge to hostage families follows a surge ...
... American citizens working abroad as hostages do not discriminate based on their job or employer, and neither should our government.” While calling the newly created Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell a “good idea” she said the person with sole responsibility for safe hostage recovery policies would be better positioned at the ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the U.S. government had let down the families of Americans held hostage by terrorists, and he outlined new policies that could make it easier for those families to pay ransom to help free their loved ones. "These families have already suffered enough ...
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.