Event Monitor
Sign in

Captured record

Captured between 2026-10-22T19:32:18.953Z and 2026-10-22T19:32:18.965Z. This is a captured core record, not a reconstruction of an arbitrary earlier moment.

Two Western hostages freed in Libya after captivity in Niger

Status: published

Two Western women held for more than eighteen months by Islamic State militants in Niger have been released and brought to Benghazi. The release was reportedly facilitated through mediation by Saddam Haftar. The terms under which the release was negotiated have not been publicly disclosed.

Category: hostage-siege · Location: Benghazi

Recorded sources

Corrections and updates

No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.

Cite this record

Global Events Monitor. Two Western hostages freed in Libya after captivity in Niger. 2026-10-22T00:20:28.315Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6961. https://global.eventmonitor.net/record/6961/revision/e71600112f9adb9c76b8f71cb1e82a34cdfef1ed735c83c2d7aad486f8c9aa24

BibTeX · RIS · CSV · JSON · Corrections and updates · Captured versions

Current event record · Captured revision history

SHA-256: e71600112f9adb9c76b8f71cb1e82a34cdfef1ed735c83c2d7aad486f8c9aa24. A digest detects a changed payload; it is not an externally witnessed timestamp.

Methodology and limits · Event stream