Meet the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. The FBI Hostage Rescue Team is effectively the civilian equivalent of the Joint Special Operations Command's famed yet mysterious counterterrorist organizations ...

The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is one of the most highly trained tactical units in U.S. law enforcement. Formed in 1982, it serves as the FBI’s full-time counterterrorism and hostage ...

An FBI agent who shot and killed a hostage during a botched rescue mission in Houston in January has been sued. The lawsuit was filed by Brooke Pearce, the sister of Ulises Valladares, who was killed ...