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Thousands of Israelis join protests against Netanyahu’s government

Thousands of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to call for new elections and demand more action from the government to bring...

Israel-Qatar meet, raising prospects of Gaza hostage talks

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel appeared to confirm that new negotiations were underway to recover hostages held by Hamas, after a source said Israel's intelligence chief met...

Israeli army admits killing 3 hostages in Gaza

Israel said its troops had killed three Gaza hostages after mistaking them for a threat, with the armed forces expressing "deep remorse" over a...

Hamas frees more hostages after hours-long delay

Hamas on Saturday released a second group of 13 Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, freeing for the first time one of the...

Hamas confirms second release of hostages to go ahead Saturday

Hamas confirmed Saturday that the second release under a truce agreement of Israeli hostages captured in the October 7 attacks will go ahead after...

Hamas says delaying second handover of Israeli hostages

GAZA: Hamas on Saturday said that it was delaying the release of a second group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners until...

Kashmore: Tribesmen move to katcha area to recover hostages

KASHMORE: Hundreds of tribesmen led by former MPA Saleem Jan Mazari marching towards Katcha area to recover a hostage Sagar Kumar and other abductees,...

Several injured as police baton charge protesters in Kandhkot

KANDHKOT: The citizens protesting law enforcement agencies’ (LEA) failure to recover all hostages and restore law and order to crime-infested Kandhkot-Kashmore district were badly...

Bandit gangs release five hostages in Shikarpur katcha area, says police

Five men released by the outlaws have been named Najeeb Pathan, Inayat, Abdul Hai, Manjhi and an unnamed person.

Man takes 22 children hostage at daughter’s birthday party

An armed man with a criminal background, Subhash Batham, held at least 22 children hostage at his daughter's birthday party who was later killed in police action.

US welcomes western hostages release from Taliban captivity

Hostages freed by the Taliban after more than three years in captivity are receiving medical care and other support from the US government.

Police operation in Sadiqabad katcha area enters in sixth day

Intense exchange of fire between policemen and bandits started this morning. Policemen fighting with bandits in the difficult terrain have advanced with their armored carrier near the hideout of dacoits, police sources said.

Militants storm government building in Afghan capital, take hostages

KABUL: Militants stormed a government building in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Monday, taking civilians hostage as they fought a gun battle against Afghan soldiers,...

Three women, suspect dead in California hostage standoff

LOS ANGELES: A gunman and three women thought to be his hostages were found dead Friday at a California veterans home after an hours-long standoff...

Qatari hostages in Iraq, including royals, freed after 16 months

DOHA/BAGHDAD: Twenty-six hostages, including members of Qatar's ruling royal family, were freed on Friday after being kidnapped and held for 16 months in Iraq,Iraq's...

Hostages held by Somali pirates ‘ate rats’ to survive

NAIROBI: A group of 26 hostages freed from nearly five years in the hands of Somali pirates touched down in Kenya on Sunday, with both tears...

At least 20 foreigners killed in Dhaka attack, army confirms

DHAKA, BANGLADESH: Twenty foreigners were killed by their captors after being taken hostage at a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and most of the victims were either Italian or Japanese, an army officer said on Saturday.

Gunmen storm Dhaka cafe, take diners hostage

DHAKA: Gunmen stormed a crowded restaurant popular with foreigners in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday night, taking dozens of people hostage and triggering a deadly firefight with police, witnesses and officials said.

Police shoot dead gunman who took hostages in German cinema

FRANKFURT: A gunman took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman told the N-TV television channel, adding that no other people were injured.

Islamic State frees 270 of 400 people kidnapped from Syria’s Deir al-Zor

BEIRUT: Islamic State on Tuesday released 270 of an estimated 400 civilians, most of them women and children, kidnapped at the weekend when its fighters attacked Syrian government-held areas in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said.
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