Category: hostages

Streaming Series Review: ‘Hostages’: A Balanced View of a Hardline Iranian Regime

TV-MA | 4 episodes | Documentary | Sept. 28, 2022 Jacques Mallet du Pan famously wrote of the French Revolution, “like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.” That is equally true of Iran’s 1979 Revolution. Few Iranians wanted to be ruled by a theocratic regime, but the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shrewdly exploited the international crisis to shape the new government and…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Jan. 17)

The FBI identifies the British man who took hostages in Texas over the weekend. And UK police make two arrests in connection with the incident. Some hospitals across the U.S. close their emergency departments over a surge in COVID-19 cases. This comes as the Surgeon General speaks out against the Supreme Court striking down Biden’s…


2 of 17 Kidnapped American Missionaries in Haiti Released

Two of the 17 Christian missionaries kidnapped last month by a gang in Haiti have been released. Christian Aid Ministries, the organization supporting the missionaries, released a statement on its website on Sunday on the development. “We have learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released. We praise God for this! Only limited…


2 Hostages Have Been Released in Haiti, Group Says

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Two of the 17 American and Canadian Christian missionaries taken hostage in Haiti last month have been released, the group that arranged for their trip to the Caribbean nation said on Sunday, without giving further details. “We have learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released,” Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a…


The Latest Arrests Over Jan. 6 Capitol Incident

WASHINGTON—The latest arrests from the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by protesters: Retired Air Force Officer Arrested A prosecutor says a retired Air Force officer who was part of the group that stormed the U.S. Capitol carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he meant “to take hostages.” Retired Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. appeared…