22 April 1990
✍Robert Polhill released
Beirut & suburbs#Western hostages 1982–1991
PartiesIslamic Jihad & the hostage-taking frontsUnited StatesSyria / Syrian Army
On 22 April 1990 the American Robert Polhill, one of the Beirut University College lecturers kidnapped in January 1987, was released and handed over in Damascus; the beginning of the resolution of the American hostage crisis under Syrian–Iranian sponsorship. "Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine" released him.