
Algeria: Army rescues hostages, toll unclear
Algerian helicopters and special forces stormed a gas plant in the stony plains of the Sahara on Thursday to wipe out Islamist militants and free ...
US slams hostage-taking; Clinton to call Algeria
The Obama administration appeared to be in the dark Thursday about a hostage situation at a natural gas plant in Algeria, where Algerian forces ...

Cameron delays Europe speech amid Algeria crisis
Prime Minister David Cameron is postponing a key speech about Britain and the EU because of the hostage crisis in Algeria, officials said Thursday.

Belfast tears of joy as 1 Algerian abductee freed
Stephen McFaul's loved ones say they cannot believe he's escaped unharmed from the Algerian hostage crisis — and never want him to work in the energy ...

Foreign oil workers evacuated from Algeria
Spanish, Norwegian and British oil companies were evacuating workers from Algerian energy facilities Thursday following the hostage-taking by Islamic ...

THE RESET: Obama rounding out his second-term team
Just days before he again takes the oath of office, President Barack Obama is rounding out his Cabinet and White House staff while bracing for major ...

Somali militants say they killed French hostage
Somalia's most dangerous militant group said Thursday that it killed a French hostage that French military forces tried to rescue last weekend during ...
Oil up toward $95 amid Algerian hostage standoff
The price of oil rose closer to $95 a barrel on Thursday as Islamic militants took hostages at a natural gas plant in Algeria and U.S. crude supplies ...

Algeria mulls international force for hostages
Algeria's government searched desperately Thursday for a way to end a desert standoff with Islamic militants who have taken dozens of foreigners ...

Somali militants say they will kill French hostage
Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebels said Wednesday that they will kill the French intelligence agent they hold hostage. The Islamist extremists said that ...

France girds for new threats amid Mali operation
France's military campaign to stop advancing Islamist insurgents in Mali has been met with a volley of threats from the extremists, feeding fears that ...

French president bares tough side in Africa fights
Bombing militants in Mali may be the most popular thing Francois Hollande has done as France's president. The bespectacled and self-described "normal" ...

No easy exit for French fighting terror in Mali
France, breaking its own rules with a surprise military intervention in Mali, raises the specter of an African quagmire in a new theater of the West's ...

French commando killed in Somalia hostage raid
A raid to free a French intelligence agent held captive in Somalia for three years went horribly wrong, leaving 17 Islamists and at least one French ...

France chooses Africa intervention carefully
France has a history of intervention in Africa, where it was a colonial power for decades and still maintains several military sites and has hundreds ...
Somali pirates free 3 Syrian hostages
A Somali official says three Syrian hostages held by Somali pirates have been released after more than two years in captivity. Mohamed Aden Ticey, an ...

Syrian rebels seize parts of strategic air base
Hundreds of Islamic militants fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad seized parts of a strategic northwestern air base Thursday after weeks ...

Iranians freed in major prisoner swap in Syria
Rebels freed 48 Iranians on Wednesday in exchange for more than 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, held by Syrian authorities — a deal ...

US sees Iran behind hostage photos of ex-FBI agent
Two years after a hostage video and photographs of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson raised the possibility that the missing American was being held ...