Hijacking and Hostages in Syria Thomas Boyatt, a native of Cincinnati, entered the Foreign Service in 1960 and served for…
Next to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and…
With forged passport in hand, Kathleen Stafford donned fake eyeglasses and pulled her long hair back. If this plan worked,…
If you think your relationships are complex, consider the convoluted ties among Ghana, Guinea, and the United States in the…
Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard forces took hundreds of Americans…
On November 4, 1979, some 3000 radical Iranian students protested at the U.S. embassy. The embassy had been taken over…
Sometimes it just ain’t easy working for the State Department. If you go through the lengthy history of the Foreign Service…
It sounds like something out of a novel: a group of rebels, helped by an American, seize an embassy in…
More than thirty years later, the Iran Hostage crisis still ranks as one of the most traumatic diplomatic events in…
On August 4th, 1975, five members of the Japanese Red Army or JRA – a militant organization intent on overthrowing…