- January 16, 2013: About 41 Westerners and 150 Algerians were taken by fighters with links to al-Qaida in gas platform in Amenas (central-eastern part of Algeria, near the Libyan border), operated by Sonatrach (Algeria), BP (UK) and Statoil (Norway).
- September 1-3 2004: In a school in Beslan (North Ossetia), a Chechen commando take hostages around 1,200 people, including children, parents and teachers. The Russian forces assault results in the death of 331 people, including 186 children and 31 kidnappers, as well as injuring another 400.
- February/March 2003: In the Algerian Sahara, 32 tourists from Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria are kidnapped in several groups by the Algerian Islamist movement GSPC (Group for preaching and combat slafist). A German female hostage died of sunstroke, others are released by the Algerian army in an operation, later in August, in Mali , in an unconfirmed exchange for a ransom of five million paid by Berlin.
- Octomber 23-26 2002: In Moscow (Russia) over 800 people are detained for 57 hours by a Chechen commando in Dubrovka theater, before a Russian special forces storm. A total of 130 hostages were killed, as well as the members of the commando, the majority were asphyxiated with gas used by special forces.
- May 2000: In Sierra Leone, some 500 UN peacekeepers are taken hostage by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The last UN troops, surrounded by rebels for two months, will be released in July during an operation carried out by UN logistics and British air support.
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- December 17, 1996: In Peru, at the residence of the Japanese Embassy in Lima, about 700 people are taken hostage by a commando fighters from the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement). On 22 April, after 126 months of imprisonment and while there were still only 72 hostages, the assault was conducted. The 14 members of the commando, one hostage and two soldiers were killed.
- November 6-7, 1985: At Bogota, 400 people are taken hostage in the Palace of Justice by a commando of M19. The next day, the assault conducted jointly by the army and police kills about 100 people..
- November 4,1979: Tehran, 52 Americans are held in the U.S. Embassy by 400 Islamists students demanding the extradition of the former shah of Iran, located in New York. They are released after 444 days, after the failure of a U.S. commando operation in April 1980.
- September 5-6 ,1972: During the Olympic Games in Munich (Germany), 11 members of the Israeli delegation were killed during a hostage taking in the Olympic Village by a Palestinian commando. Two were killed by the commando, nine during the shootout fired by the German police on a military airfield as the commando was preparing to leave with the hostages. The eight members of the commando, a German officer and a helicopter pilot were also killed.
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