One of 100 Israeli special forces who descended upon an airport in Uganda to rescue more than 100 hostages was in Vacaville Tuesday night. Sasson Reuven, who was a 21-year-old Israel Defense Forces ...

Skimming above the choppy waves through the dark the four planes swooped in low over Lake Victoria, packed with more than 200 elite Israeli commandos on a daring raid to free hijacked hostages.

“7 Days in Entebbe” is, as its name suggests, a pretty conventional ticktock of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris by members of the Popular Front for the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It was perhaps the most daring Israeli military exploit ever — a rescue raid in Africa that inspired Hollywood films and became etched in Israeli history. Nearly four decades ...

A French pilot remembered as a hero for his actions in the hijacking of an Air France plane to Uganda’s Entebbe airport in 1976 died Tuesday at 95. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said in a statement ...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Uganda Monday for what is likely to be an emotional visit to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Israeli military raid in which ...

Whereas the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe 47 years ago on Monday has always been hailed as one of the most spectacular military operations ever to have been carried out, it is an operation that ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Terrorism is all about creating fear, or more accurately, helplessness. The message of terrorists is that they can strike us at our airports and supermarkets and ...

LONDON, Israel’s secret service may have been involved in the hijack of an Air France plane in 1976 by pro-Palestinian hijackers, according to newly-declassified British government documents ...

WASHINGTON — Michel Bacos, a French pilot who refused to abandon the Jewish passengers of his hijacked plane when they were taken hostage to the Entebbe airport in Uganda in 1976, an ordeal that ended ...