On December 24, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was set for a routine flight from Algiers to Paris. Instead, the passengers and crew spent three days as the hostages of Islamist extremists. They were ...

Julien Leclercq’s thriller The Assault dramatizes the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969, during which four terrorists took over a Paris-bound plane in Algiers, intending to crash it into the ...

In “Israel’s October 7 intelligence failure spawns doctrine of pre-emptive action” (Report, November 10), you mention the failure by US security officials to foresee 9/11, even though many said they ...