Kidnapping

Kidnapping

• Lebanon, Greece name hostages killed in Nigeria

  Lebanon and Greece have identified the hostages killed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria, though two people remain unaccounted for out of the seven ... 

• Abducted Ukrainian journalist free in Syria

  Ukraine's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday confirmed that a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria is free after more than 150 days in captivity. 

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  Mortar shells hit Damascus neighborhood, killing 6

  Mortar shells struck a predominantly Christian neighborhood and a football stadium at game time in Damascus on Monday, killing six civilians and ... 

• Ukrainian journalist kidnapped in Syria is free

  Russian news reports say a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped by rebels in Syria five months ago is now free. Anhar Kochneva was working as an ... 

• Nigeria: Video shows bodies of foreign hostages

  A video posted online appears to show the corpses of some of the seven foreign hostages abducted by Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria and later ... 

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  Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria

  Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in ... 

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  Rebels free 21 UN captives in southern Syria

  Rebels in southern Syria freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, driving them to the border with Jordan after ... 

• Nigerian extremists claim they killed 7 hostages

  A breakaway Islamic extremist group said Saturday it had killed seven foreigners who its members kidnapped from northern Nigeria, according to an ... 

• British tourists briefly abducted in Egypt's Sinai

  An Egyptian military intelligence official says that two British tourists in southern Sinai have been freed just hours after their kidnapping. 

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  Defense rests at NY officer's cannibal plot trial

  A Russian man who operates a fetish website where prosecutors say a New York police officer met others interested in killing and cooking women told ... 

• Gunmen abduct Bulgarian mobster's daughter, age 12

  Three masked gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the 12-year-old daughter of a Bulgarian mobster, an abduction that could be linked to drug trafficking ... 

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  Chad's president: Al-Qaida chief killed in Mali

  Chadian President Idriss Deby announced Friday that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the ... 

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  Witness: NYC officer eyed colleague for kidnap

  The cannibalism conspiracy case against a police officer took another odd turn on Thursday when an FBI agent testified that a New York Police ... 

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  Swiss woman freed from kidnappers in Yemen

  A Swiss researcher kidnapped almost a year ago in Yemen was released in good health and flown to Qatar, whose government helped negotiate her release, ... 

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  Defense questions FBI agent in NY cannibal plot

  A defense attorney for a police officer accused in a cannibalism plot pressed an FBI agent to explain where fantasy ends and reality begins Wednesday ... 

• Video claims Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages

  A video posted online Monday apparently shows seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon, with a masked militant claiming the radical ... 

• Greece helicopter prison escape attempt foiled

  A helicopter swooped down on a prison courtyard Sunday as armed men on board fired on guards and lowered a rope to help a convicted killer make his ... 

• Kidnapped Austrian says his captors demand ransom

  An Austrian man held hostage in Yemen for two months has appealed to his government to save his life, saying his captors would kill him in a week if ...