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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 ...
2020 Nigeria hostage rescue. During the early hours of October 31, 2020, United States Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) conducted an operation in Northern Nigeria, resulting in the rescue of an American hostage and the killing of six of the seven captors. [5][6] The hostage, 27-year-old Philip Walton, had ...
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.
The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv ...
More than 100 people are thought to remain held hostage in Gaza, with at least a quarter of them believed to be dead. Ruby and Hagit Chen had held out hope for months that they would be reunited ...
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis ...
Operation Eagle Claw (Persian: عملیات پنجه عقاب) was a failed operation by the United States Armed Forces ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt the rescue of 53 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980. The operation, one of Delta Force 's first, [1] encountered many ...
Operation Dragon Rouge (French: Opération Dragon Rouge, IPA: [ɔpeɾasjõ dɾagõ ɾuʒə], meaning "Operation Red Dragon") was a hostage rescue operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo conducted jointly by Belgium and the United States in 1964. The operation was led by the Belgian Paracommando Regiment to rescue hostages held by ...