#abductions

An armed group blocked access to the headquarters of a peacekeeping force in Egypt`s Sinai to pressure the government ...

The United States voiced concern Tuesday at the latest deadly inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan, which it said had ...

Six months after the world`s youngest country euphorically declared its independence, South Sudan is riven by ...

An armed gang of kidnappers abducted three Europeans and killed a fourth in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, ...

President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during Brazil`s military ...

Somali Islamist Shebab rebels on Thursday kidnapped two female Spanish aid workers from Kenya`s Dadaab refugee camp, ...

Five militants escaped from a prison in Nigeria`s main oil-hub Port Harcourt on Sunday by using their metal beds as ...

Nineteen-year-old Mehdi was looking forward to meeting the girl who had been calling for days on his cell phone. But ...

Acclaimed as being the third largest democratic country in the world with high commitment to respect for human ...

Twelve Iranian engineers and five of their Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by Taliban gunmen on Monday in a remote ...

Three helicopter crew members contracted to the U.N. World Food Programme were kidnapped in Darfur on Thursday, the ...