... nomination. Hamid Aboutalebi was a member of a Muslim student group that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf isn't saying whether the U.S. would refuse to grant a visa to the ...
... in after talks with the boy's captor, 65-year-old Jim Dykes, deteriorated. He was found dead after the operation. Dykes took the boy hostage last week after attacking a school bus and killing the driver. A suicide bomber in Iraq struck at an anti-al-Qaida militia today ...
HARI SREENIVASAN: There was word today that three Americans died in the hostage standoff in Algeria that finally ended over the weekend. A U.S. official told the Associated Press that seven other Americans escaped. It started Wednesday when Islamist militants linked to al-Qaida attacked a natural gas complex ...
Although a large number of hostages have been released in Algeria, efforts continue to secure and account for remaining captives and the casualties, including some Americans. In neighboring Mali, Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports that conflicts between Islamist militants and the Malian government continue.
In other news Thursday, a Somali militant group with links to al-Qaida called al-Shabab announced they had executed Denis Allex, a French national and intelligence agent who had been held by the militants since mid-2009. Meanwhile, another bomb attack in Iraq killed at least 26 people, the majority of which were Shiite pilgrims.
... took 41 foreign hostages, including seven Americans. Early today, the Algerian military stormed the sprawling site, as the militants were attempting to leave with the hostages. Hours later, the country's communications minister told Algerian radio: "An important number of hostages were freed and an important number of terrorists were ...
HARI SREENIVASAN: Pirates in Somalia threatened today to kill an American hostage if the U.S. attempts to free him. The warning followed a Navy SEAL raid that rescued another American and a Dane who had been held since October. The latest U.S. captive was abducted on Saturday. His ...
Somali pirates killed four Americans who had been taken hostage aboard their yacht as U.S. forces followed the vessel. Gwen Ifill examines the problem of piracy off the Horn of Africa with Martin Murphy, a visiting fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King's College in London.
... every administration. He blames an increase in both the number of positions needing confirmation and heightened polarization in the Senate. "Now you have a widespread hostage-taking phenomenon," Ornstein said. If you want to get the attention of the administration, you just look at all those people awaiting nomination and ...
Romanian-born writer Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, becoming only the 12th woman to win the prize in its 109-year history. The Swedish Academy described Muller as writer “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed ...
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