4 December 1991
✸Release of the foreign hostages
Beirut & suburbs#Western hostages 1982–1991
PartiesIslamic Jihad & the hostage-taking fronts
On 4 December 1991 Terry Anderson, the last of the American hostages, was released, closing the Western hostage crisis (1982–1991) through UN mediation and understandings with Syria and Iran.