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Law enforcement teams stage near Congregation Beth Israel while conducting SWAT operations in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 15, 2022. Authorities said a man took hostages Saturday during services at the synagogue where the suspect could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan.

Texas hostage taker slain after demanding release of woman jailed for plotting to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan

According to ABC, the hostage taker repeatedly mentioned Islam and used profanities and was heard demanding the release of his sister Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned on charges related to the attempted murder and assault of U.S. officers and employees in Afghanistan in 2008.

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In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP)

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French service members with the 5th Overseas Interarms Regiment practice casualty transportation techniques at the Arta Range Complex, Djibouti, Dec. 14, 2021. Five instructors from the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, Vt., taught a five-day course on basic military mountaineering skills to French service members.

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Air Force

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Navy

The guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale transits the Indian Ocean while training with the Royal Australian Air Force, Dec. 17, 2021.

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Space Force

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Coast Guard

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Marine Corps

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U.S.

People rally demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in February 2010 of two counts of attempted murder, and who is currently being detained in the U.S. during International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The man who authorities say was holding hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan.

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Europe

Spain's King Felipe, top right, and Queen Letizia, center, accept gifts from children during a visit to the Lisbon city hall Tuesday, Nov 29 2016. At left is Lisbon Mayor Fernando Medina. The Spanish royals arrived Tuesday in Lisbon on the second day of their three-day state visit to Portugal. (Manuel de Almeida/Pool photo via AP)

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Asia-Pacific

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Middle East

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are aiming to restart education for girls and women by late March, the government's chief spokesman told The Associated Press in an interview, offering the first-ever timeline for addressing a key demand of the international community. (AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin)

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Americas

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Haiti carry the casket of slain President Jovenel Moïse before his funeral on July 23, 2021, in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Moïse, 53, was shot dead in his home in the early hours of July 7. (Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

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Republican Senate candidate Mike Durant addresses the Republican Men's Club in Huntsville on Jan. 15, 2022. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com)

Senate candidate Mike Durant of ‘Black Hawk Down’ fame says Afghanistan was ‘political failure’

Retired Army helicopter pilot Mike Durant, who was portrayed in the movie “Black Hawk Down” and is running for the Senate, says the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan was a “political failure.”

FILE - World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, on Sept. 12, 2019. Music and thoughtful tributes filled a portion of The National WWII Museum where family and friends gathered Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, to remember Lawrence Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran who died earlier this month. Brooks, who died Jan. 5, was 112. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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sports

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic rides in car as he leaves a government detention facility before attending a court hearing at his lawyers office in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.

Tennis star Djokovic loses deportation appeal in Australia

The decision likely means that Novak Djokovic, who is not vaccinated against COVID-19, will remain in detention in Melbourne until he is deported and he’ll miss playing in the Australian Open.

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Torrejon, Spain, December, 1961: Photographer Gus Schuettler got a great view of the Spanish countryside as he took to the air to photograph a USAFE 65th Air Division training exercise.
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Training in Spain, 1961

Torrejon, Spain, December 1961: Photographer Gus Schuettler got a great view of the Spanish countryside as he took to the air to photograph a USAFE 65th Air Division training exercise.