Wednesday, 1 September 2021 (YJC)_ The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement called the Zionist regime's hostage -taking of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs a "war crime."
Saturday, 14 August 2021 (YJC)_ A senior Iranian diplomat says the United States prevents the release of dual nationals as it has taken the detainees “ hostage ” in order to obtain “political goals.”
TEHRAN, August 15 -Six Philadelphia police officers were shot and wounded on Wednesday (August 14) in a shootout during a drug raid on a house and negotiators were urging the shooter to surrender as two officers remained trapped inside the home, police said.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani urged Europe to stand against the US and not allow its sovereignty to be held hostage to Washington’s unilateralism.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 -Iranian officials have warned Saudi Arabia against holding an oil tanker " hostage ," describing it as an "illegal seizure" and a case of "ransom-seeking" aimed at gaining concessions from Iran.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Two French soldiers have been killed during an operation to free four hostage s held by a militant group in northern Burkina Faso, France has announced.
TEHRAN, Mar 21 - Italian police on Wednesday rescued 51 children taken hostage by their school bus driver, who doused the vehicle in petrol and set it alight apparently in protest at migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.
TEHRAN, Jan 5 - An Iranian parliamentarian said consultations between Tehran and Islamabad are under way to secure the release of the Iranian border guards who were kidnapped by Pakistani-based terrorists in October.
TEHRAN, December 17 - The European Union has been holding the Iran nuclear deal hostage so that it can press Tehran into meeting its other unrelated demands.
TEHRAN, November 07 - All 78 children and a driver kidnapped in west Cameroon were released on Wednesday, but a principal and one teacher are still being held by the armed men that took them, a priest conducting negotiations said.
TEHRAN, October 19 - Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli called for immediate joint operation with Pakistan to secure the release of Iranian border guards who have been kidnapped on the country’s border with Pakistan.
TEHRAN, August 20 - The Taliban ambushed a convoy of busses Monday on a road in northern Afghanistan and took more than 100 people hostage , including women and children, in the latest brazen assault by insurgents, provincial officials said.
TEHRAN, August 1- Iran’s OPEC governor says US President Donald Trump has apparently been duped by Saudi Arabia into believing that the kingdom can replace Iranian barrels cut from the market.
TEHRAN, June 13 - A man who took two people hostage in central Paris was transferred to a psychiatric ward Wednesday, a day after the four-hour standoff in which he doused a woman in petrol and held a knife to her throat.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Police in Indonesia say a hostage crisis at a high-security prison on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, has ended, three days after scores of inmates conducted “an act of terror” against guards in the detention center, killing a number of police personnel.
TEHRAN, March 25 - Greek police in the northern city of Thessaloniki say they have arrested three Pakistanis who allegedly held 21 migrants hostage in a warehouse on the outskirts of the city, demanding money to release them.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Russian Interior Ministry reports of an unidentified gunman, who opened fire in the Menshevik confectionary factory building in southeast Moscow, claiming the life of at least one person, wounding three and taking several hostage s.
TEHRAN, October 23 -British police ended an armed hostage siege on Sunday, the BBC reported, saying there were no casualties after a gunman took two staff members hostage at a bowling alley in a leisure complex in central England.