Negotiations have begun with an armed gang holding 132 children hostage at a school in southern Russia. The rebels threatened to kill 50 children for every one of their number killed by security ...

An Israeli hostage held underground by Hamas said the ... Israel says there are still 132 missing, of whom about 27 are now thought to be dead. Read next ...

Hamas has handed American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, over to the Red Cross, the third hostage to be released Saturday ...

The father of one of the three Americans still alive in Gaza said he feels “optimistic” for the first time in 15 months following the Israel-Hamas hostage exchange agreement, but he’s ...