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Journalist Sulome Anderson is based in Beirut, Lebanon and New York City.

Terry Anderson’s daughter comes face-to-face with her father’s kidnapper

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Her mother was pregnant when assailants bundled her father into the back of a car in Beirut in 1985. Six years later he was released, but the family’s life would never be the same.

“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.”

A former hostage of extremists in Syria thinks the US needs to talk to Assad

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