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... Obama has said he favors Scotland remaining part of the U.K. JUDY WOODRUFF: The Islamic State group today released a propaganda video of British hostage John Cantlie, a freelance photojournalist. Three hostages have been beheaded already, and Cantlie criticized the failure to win their freedom. He said -- quote -- "Seeing ...
... GWEN IFILL: Now we will take a closer look at some of the victims of Muslim extremists, Americans who have been taken hostage. Jeffrey Brown take a look tonight at the long, complicated and often unsuccessful process of bringing them home. JEFFREY BROWN: American journalist Peter Theo Curtis spoke ...
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State militant group is holding hostage a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, a family representative said Tuesday. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known to have been kidnapped by the militant group. The Islamic State group recently threatened ...
Burger King announced on Tuesday that it will buy Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons for about $11.4 billion, which would create the world’s third-largest fast-food chain. The deal also would move Burger King’s headquarters to Canada. The combined business will have about $23 billion in ...
... who have gone missing in Syria have now been located, and Qatar is working to free them.” The source spoke on condition of anonymity. The hostages were being held by “various groups,” the source said, without providing details. Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution said on NPR’s “All Things ...
... 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.
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