Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 23 Aug 1990: Saddam Hussein pats five-year-old British hostage Stuart Lockwood on the head – a chilling PR stunt broadcast around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British-Israeli hostage is “in high spirits and on the road to recovery,” her mother has said, during the first public comments ...

The Islamic State jihadist group on Friday claimed responsibility for the murder of British aid worker Alan Henning in a video showing his apparent execution. In the video, almost identical to those ...

Mystery still shrouds the fate of British photographer John Cantlie who was captured by Islamic State in Syria - with arguments over whether he was a hero or a traitor. He was taken hostage by ISIS in ...

The last British hostage in Gaza was freed by Hamas on Sunday after more than 15 months in captivity, as part of a long-fought ceasefire to end the ruinous conflict, which has claimed tens of ...

(JTA) — A British woman who is married to a Jewish anti-Zionist activist has been convicted of theft in connection with a 2024 incident in which she removed an Israeli hostage poster and threw it in ...

Forces from the United Arab Emirates have rescued a British hostage held for more than 18 months by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, authorities in Abu Dhabi and London said on Sunday. Robert Douglas Semple, a ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 ...

The British government said on Friday it was investigating a report on a Middle East television station that hostage Kenneth Bigley had been killed by his captors in Iraq. ”We are trying urgently to ...

LONDON (AP) — British Muslim leaders have made a plea for the safety of a British hostage threatened with beheading by Islamic State extremists in Syria. The group said in a letter published Thursday ...

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