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(VOVWORLD) - Israeli forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas since October in a raid in Gaza on Saturday
(VOVWORLD) - Tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday took to the streets to call on the government to quickly reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip to free more...
(VOVWORLD) -The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, and the immediate and unconditional release of hostages. There were 14 votes...
(VOVWORLD) - Israel has accepted a 6-week ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in return for the release by Hamas of captives considered vulnerable, a US official said on Saturday
(VOVWORLD) - Qatar and France have brokered a deal with Israel and Hamas to deliver urgently needed medications to some 45 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in return for humanitarian and...
(VOVWORLD) - For every 10 additional hostages released, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas would be extended by another day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday
(VOVWORLD) - Israel's government voted Wednesday to back a deal for Palestinian Hamas militants to free 50 women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a four-day pause...
(VOVWORLD) -Syrian troops liberated 19 women and children held hostage by the Islamic State group since July, ending a months-long crisis, state media reported Thursday
(VOVWORLD) - Afghan forces have launched a lightning operation in northern Kunduz province, rescuing 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban hours earlier
(VOVWORLD) -The last 20 Filipino hostages held by the IS-linked Maute group were rescued on Sunday. Colonel Romeo Brawner, in a press briefing, said there are no more hostages
(VOVworld) - 455 hostages held by terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria's northeast region were freed by government forces during recent anti-terrorism operations in Nigeria
(VOVworld) - Abu Sayyaf , an Islamic State-linked rebel group in the Philippines, has freed two Filipinos held captive for nearly three months
(VOVworld) - Afghan security official Gulam Mohammad Tahiri said Wednesday that Taliban insurgents executed 12 people they abducted in recent ambushes in Afghanistan's southeastern Ghazni province
(VOVworld) - Russia's federal tourism agency on Wednesday issued a warning that the IS is planning to abduct Russian citizens in Turkey
(VOVworld) – 33 hostages have been freed from Splendid hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso that was attacked by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Friday
(VOVworld) - The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the Islamic State’s "heinous and cowardly" executions of two hostages: Fan Jinghui of China and Ole Johan Grimsgaard – Ofstad of Norway
(VOVworld) - The Islamic State group said Wednesday it had killed two hostages, one Chinese and a Norwegian. The jihadists' English-language Dabiq magazine featured photos of two bodies with the caption “Executed”....
(VOVworld) – US Special Forces helped Kurd and Iraqi forces rescue 70 IS hostages facing “imminent mass execution” early Thursday morning at a prison near Hawijah, Iraq, but one American service...
(VOVworld) - The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot remained still unknown on Saturday, a day after the latest purported deadline for a possible prisoner swap passed with...