The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), founded in 1982, operates as a full-time tactical unit capable of deploying within four hours across the U.S. or overseas. With training modeled on military ...

Feb. 12, 2013 — -- For the first time since his release from an underground Alabama bunker, 6-year-old Ethan and his mother, Jennifer Kirkland, have revealed new details about his six days as ...

The White House was insistent Thursday that President Obama acted "promptly" to try to rescue American hostage Luke Somers from al Qaeda in Yemen, approving the risky special operations mission ...