The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention explores responses to the growing phenomenon of hostage taking. Over the last year, the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — As a hostage in Gaza, Aviva Siegel found herself begging for food and water. Since her release, she has found herself begging for her husband to be set free from his own ...

So this should bring them to take advantage of the window of opportunity to get a deal done, and fast,” said Ruby Chen, 55, father of American-Israeli hostage Itay Chen. Chen, a 19-year-old ...

For the Berger family, like so many of Israel's hostage families, it's been a year of intolerable, engulfing fear, loathing and anxiety. It's been a year of not knowing whether Agam Berger ...

The family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old American-Israeli who was taken hostage from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, has announced his death. “With broken hearts, the Goldberg ...

Released hostage Aviva Siegel: I was there. For 51 days. I nearly died underneath the ground. One more day and I would have been dead.

NBC News' Raf Sanchez spoke with the wife of one hostage, who is waiting for her husband’s return to her and their three children, including a baby born while he has been in captivity.Oct.

Journal Editorial Report: A bumpy ride that began in Afghanistan. Photo: Qudratullah Razwan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock I’m 17, and I survived 52 days in Hamas captivity ...

Those were his last exchanged words before he was taken hostage. A native of Tenafly, New Jersey, Alexander graduated from the Tenafly High School in 2022 and decided to delay college to enlist ...

A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces ...

The mother of the only British-Israeli hostage still being held by Hamas in Gaza has asked why the UK is not "fighting every moment to secure her release". Emily Damari, 28, was shot and taken ...

Cyprus police and the British bases have completed a week-long training course on addressing a hostage crisis, aimed at making Cyprus safer. The Cyprus police hostage negotiators’ refresher ...