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  2. Iranian Embassy siege - Wikipedia

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    That evening, they killed a hostage and threw his body out of the embassy. The British Special Air Service (SAS) initiated "Operation Nimrod" to rescue the remaining hostages, abseiling from the roof and forcing entry through the windows. During the 17-minute raid they rescued all but one of the remaining hostages and killed five of the six ...

  3. Operation Barras - Wikipedia

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    Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war.The operation aimed to release five British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army (SLA) liaison officer, who were being held by a militia group known as the "West Side Boys".

  4. List of hostage crises - Wikipedia

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    31 October 2010. About 4 hours. 2010 Discovery headquarters hostage crisis. Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. 1 September 2010. About 5 hours. Manila hostage crisis. Manila, Philippines. 23 August 2010.

  5. Operation Turus - Wikipedia

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    Operation Turus is the code name of the British military operation to assist Nigeria during the Boko Haram insurgency. It was launched in April 2014 by Prime Minister David Cameron in response to the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping which saw over a hundred schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a jihadist terrorist organisation in northeastern Nigeria.

  6. Hamas hostages: What do we know about Britons being held ...

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    Hostages, some of whom were taken from a nearby music festival last Saturday, are currently being held in the heavily-militarised Gaza area. Below we look at everything we know about the ongoing ...

  7. Hostage Rescue Team - Wikipedia

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    The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) elite tactical unit. [9][10] The HRT was formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States. [9] Today, the HRT performs a number of tactical law enforcement and national ...

  8. 2024 Nuseirat rescue operation - Wikipedia

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    The Nuseirat rescue operation (dubbed Operation Arnon[6]) was a rescue operation carried out by Yamam, the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces with intelligence support from the United States [7] in the Nuseirat refugee camp on 8 June 2024 to recover hostages taken from the Nova music festival during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. [8]

  9. Entebbe raid - Wikipedia

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    The Delta Force (1986) which featured a hostage rescue operation inspired by Operation Entebbe. [123] Zameen (2003) is a Bollywood movie starring Ajay Devgan and Abhishek Bachchan who draw a plan to rescue hostages of an Indian airliner hijacked by Pakistani militants on the basis of Operation Entebbe. [124]