Taliban say foreign prisoners in good health
A group of foreign civilians captured in eastern Afghanistan when their helicopter made an emergency landing are in good health, the Taliban said on ...
Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter
Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign ...
Taliban capture 11 foreigners in Afghanistan
The Taliban took 11 civilians prisoner, including eight Turks and a Russian, after their cargo helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern ...
French family of 7 taken hostage in Cameroon freed
A French family with four young children kidnapped at gunpoint by Islamic extremists in northern Cameroon was freed after two months of captivity in ...
Police: hostage-taker gave no signs of compromise
As a gunman held four firefighters hostage in his Georgia home, police tried to buy time and create a rapport by meeting his initial demands. But when ...
Financial crises for Ga. man who held firefighters
A gunman who lured firefighters to his Georgia home with an emergency call, then held four of them hostage for hours before being shot to death faced ...
Gunman holding firefighters killed; 4 hostages OK
An armed man who was having financial problems held four firefighters for hours in a suburban Atlanta home, demanding his cable and power be turned ...
Militants kills 7, kidnap 4 in attack in Pakistan
Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn ...
Police: British hostage taken in Nigeria released
A British man abducted in Nigeria's largest city has been released by his kidnappers, a police spokeswoman said Thursday, as other foreigners have ...
France confirms death of Al-Qaida chief Abou Zeid
The death of a top al-Qaida-linked warlord in combat with French-led troops represents a victory in the battle against jihadists who had a ...
French hostages held by Nigerian sect in new video
A video surfaced Monday showing a man who appeared to be a French hostage held by Islamic extremists with six other family members kidnapped on Feb.
Prison escape artist doesn't get free this time
His first two prison escapes in Greece were spectacular and successful, aboard helicopters chartered by accomplices. But when Albanian inmate Alket ...
France: Discretion needed to free Nigeria hostages
France is adopting a "determined and discrete" approach to safeguard the lives of eight French hostages kidnapped by extremist groups in and near ...
Rights groups: Syrian rebels often kill captives
Syrian rebels routinely kill captured soldiers and suspected regime informers, human rights monitors said Thursday, warning of mounting war crimes ...
Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey release 8 captives
Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq freed eight captured Turkish soldiers and officials on Wednesday as part of peace efforts between Turkey and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Italy confirms claim 7 hostages slain in Nigeria
The Italian Foreign Ministry says it has confirmed Nigerian extremists' claim that seven foreign hostages have been killed in Nigeria. The foreigners, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Film of Austrian girl's hostage ordeal premieres
The story of Natascha Kampusch, who grew from a 10-year old to a young woman as a captive of a sadistic abductor, is now a movie. The film depicting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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