JACKSON STILL HOPEFUL FOR CAPTIVE US MAN’S RELEASE
By PETER ORSI Rev. Jesse Jackson talks with journalists after a meeting with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, at the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba,…
Hostage situations
TERRORISTS CLAIM 137 KILLED IN KENYA MALL ATTACK
By DAVID RISING and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Mary Italo, center, grieves with other relatives for her son Thomas Abayo Italo, 33, who was killed in the Westgate Mall attack, as they…
KENYAN FORCES LAUNCH ASSAULT TO END HOSTAGE SIEGE
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Trucks of soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces arrive after dawn outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Islamic extremist…
39 DEAD IN KENYA MALL ATTACK; HOSTAGES STILL HELD
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Civilians who had been hiding inside during the gun battle manage to flee from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.…
AUSTRIAN POLICE STORM BUILDING WHERE GUNMAN IS
Associated Press Austrian army soldiers in an armored vehicle arrive near the villages of Grosspriel and Kollapriel some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013,…
FILIPINO TROOPS ATTACK TO END REBEL STANDOFF
By BULLIT MARQUEZ A government trooper aims his rifle as fighting continues with Muslim rebels Saturday Sept. 14, 2013 at Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. The Muslim rebels holding more…
PHILIPPINES WARNS REBELS TO END HOSTAGE STANDOFF
By BULLIT MARQUEZ Government troopers aboard an Armored Personnel Carrier fire at Muslim rebels in an operation to rescue scores of hostages being used as human shields by the rebels…
FORMER IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS SPOKESWOMAN NAMED AS VP
In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, Masoomeh Ebtekar, who was one of the Iranian students who occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and acted as…