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    Countervalue Foreign hostages in Afghanistan Foreign hostages in Iraq Foreign hostages in Nigeria Foreign hostages in Somalia Hostage MP Hostage Taking Act Indian...
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    Iranian Army), took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took them as hostages. The hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to their release on...
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    addition to hostages with only Israeli citizenship, almost half of the hostages are foreign nationals or have multiple citizenships. Some hostages were Negev...
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  • Look up hostages in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hostages are people seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party. Hostages or The...
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  • The Hostages Convention (formally the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages) is a United Nations treaty by which states agree to prohibit...
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    Yugoslavia; and they were charged with ordering the hostage-taking of civilians and wanton shootings of these hostages, the reprisal killings of civilians, and the...
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    of the hostages. On 25 November, some 100,000 people rallied at Hostages Square to mark "50 Days of Hell" since the Hamas assault and hostage-taking....
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  • January 2021. "Hostages Season 2 Review: This season, 'Hostages' gets grittier and better", The Times of India, retrieved 22 January 2021 "Hostages Season 2...
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    Entebbe raid (category Hostage rescue operations involving Israel)
    course of 90 minutes, 102 of the hostages were rescued successfully, with three having been killed. One of the dead hostages, Dora Bloch, was murdered by...
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    the hostages held by Hezbollah. Reagan always publicly insisted after the scandal broke in late 1986 that the purpose behind the arms-for-hostages trade...
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  • December 2013). "BBC4 buys Israeli drama Hostages". Broadcast Now. Retrieved 29 January 2014. BBC Four: Hostages Linked 2015-02-22 Dickens, Andrew (22 January...
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    Stockholm syndrome (category Hostage taking)
    the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw...
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    2024 Nuseirat rescue operation (category Hostage rescue operations of the Israel–Hamas war)
    the Israeli hostages. The Qassam Brigades later released a short video saying that the raid had also killed three unnamed Israeli hostages, including one...
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  • Hostage International, formerly Hostage UK, is a charity which aims to support the families of hostages and former hostages by providing emotional and...
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    the hostages, the police retreated from the premises. At one point during the crisis, the negotiators demanded direct contact with the hostages to satisfy...
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    Knowth.com photo of Samhain sunrise at the Mound of Hostages "The Stone Age Mound of the Hostages is also aligned with the Samhain sunrise." The sun rises...
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  • Kidnapping of Noa Argamani (category Hostage taking in Israel)
    male hostages asking Israel to bring them home. The next day, Hamas released another video showing Argamani stating that the two male hostages had been...
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  • significantly. Many hostages remain missing with no clue as to their whereabouts. The United States Department of State Hostage Working Group was organized...
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    photographers boarded the bus as volunteer hostages in exchange for the releases. By noon, three additional hostages, including the Filipino tour guide and...
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  • people were injured. The attackers took approximately 1,100 hostages. The number of hostages was initially downplayed by the government to the 200–400 range...
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  • its height. The hostages were mostly Americans and Western Europeans, but 21 national origins were represented. At least eight hostages died in captivity;...
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    (pronounced [ˈn͈ʲiːal͈ n͈oiˈɣʲiːal͈əx]; Old Irish "having nine hostages"), or Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a legendary, semi-historical Irish king who was the...
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  • offered the hostage-takers the opportunity to leave for any country other than Russia or Chechnya if they released all hostages unharmed. The hostages made an...
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  • of the Gaza Strip killed three Israeli hostages taken during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. The hostages, who were trying to be rescued, were visibly...
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  • Hostage diplomacy, also hostage-diplomacy, is the taking of hostages for diplomatic purposes. While common in the ancient world in modern diplomacy it...
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    special forces raided the site, in an effort to free the hostages. At least 39 foreign hostages were killed along with an Algerian security guard, although...
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    action earlier, for the deaths of hostages at the end of the siege, and for the lack of negotiation during the siege. Hostage Marcia Mikhael called radio station...
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    many Palestinian prisoners Israel would release for its hostages". The remaining Israeli hostages include a year old baby, his 4 year old brother and their...
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    almost half of the hostages were foreign nationals or held multiple citizenships. Some hostages were Negev Bedouins. Some of the hostages, including three...
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    (1 April 1978): 68. The Three Hostages at Standard Ebooks The Three Hostages at Faded Page (Canada) The Three Hostages HTML e-book from 'Project Gutenberg...
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