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Obama Wants Full Review Of U.S.Hostage Policy

Nov 19, 2014 01:04 AM EST

United States President Barack Obama ordered his people to conduct a full review of the government's policy regarding U.S. hostages who are being held captive overseas, the White House confirmed on Monday.

Peter Kassig's Family 'Damaged' About His Death

Kat De Guzman |

Nov 18, 2014 09:04 PM EST

American Peter Kassig was the most recent victim of the brutal beheadings of the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) militants and his family has released a statement about his death and they pressed that they are damaged about the situation they are in now.

French National Identified In Islamic State Beheading Video

Christl Leong |

Nov 18, 2014 02:32 AM EST

French authorities on Monday identified a French national among the ranks of Islamic State militants in a video of thr beheading of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig in the fifth such killing of a Western hostage that also saw the brutal murder of 18 men alleges to have been members of the Syrian military.

White House Confirms ISIS Beheading of American Peter Kassig

Christian George Acevedo |

Nov 17, 2014 01:40 AM EST

U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed Sunday that American aid worker Peter Kassig has been beheaded by militant extremist group ISIS.

Obama Calls Hostage Beheading by ISIS ‘Pure Evil’

Vittorio Hernandez |

Nov 17, 2014 01:10 AM EST

Even though the third American beheaded by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had converted to the Islam faith, the extremist organization nevertheless decapitated the 26-year-old former soldier who was known eventually as Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

Man purported to be U.S. journalist James Foley at an unknown location

Islamic State Hostages Suffered Torture Before Beheading – Report

Kristina Fernandez |

Oct 27, 2014 08:59 AM EDT

The four Islamic State hostages whose barbaric beheadings made headlines around the world earlier this year suffered extreme forms of physical torture, according to a report detailing the life of foreign captives with the jihadists.

Parents of ISIS Hostage Peter Kassig Appeal For His Release

Ren Benavidez |

Oct 05, 2014 11:46 AM EDT

The parents of Peter Kassig, a United States aid worker taken hostage by the Islamic state militants, has released a video message on Saturday, begging the group for mercy and for the release of their son.

American Hostage Threatened With Execution in ISIS Video Is An Iraq War Veteran

Rhona Arcaya |

Oct 04, 2014 09:42 AM EDT

The American aid worker threatened in an ISIS video showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning on Friday has been identified as Abdul-Rahman Kassig.