hostage

A still image from a video posted by the Taliban on social media on Dec. 19, 2016, shows American Caitlan Coleman, left, speaking next to her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle and their sons.
Conflict
Pakistan describes freeing US Canadian family from the Taliban, but officials doubt the story
Journalist Sulome Anderson is based in Beirut, Lebanon and New York City.
Books
Terry Anderson’s daughter comes face-to-face with her father’s kidnapper
“I’m free and I can talk to you and ride my bike around Paris,” says former hostage Theo Padnos. “It’s better than the alternative.”
Justice
A former hostage of extremists in Syria thinks the US needs to talk to Assad
A man holds up a knife as he rides on the back of a motorcycle touring the streets of Tabqa in celebration after ISIS militants took over Tabqa air base in Syria, on August 24, 2014.
Conflict
This could be the end of reporting from Syria
A sign outside a shop remembers James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, New Hampshire. Islamic State militants killed the journalist in a brutal videotaped beheading in revenge for US air strikes in Iraq.
Conflict
They’ll never admit it, but many countries pay ransoms to get their hostages back
Conflict & Justice
Algeria Gas Facility Attack May Have Been an Inside Job
Arts, Culture & Media
30 years later, Tehran hostage can’t forget
Concern for the hostages left behind
Conflict & Justice
Former hostage reunited with family