#hostages

NATO special forces rescued two foreign women hostages and killed five kidnappers in a daring night raid on a cave in ...

Colombian FARC rebels will free captive journalist Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, according to a statement from the ...

A Danish warship has apprehended a suspected pirate ship off Somalia`s coast, and released 12 hostages held on board, ...

Tuareg rebels fighting alongside an armed Islamist group on Thursday attacked the key town of Kidal in northern Mali, ...

Somali pirates seized an Iranian-owned cargo ship and its 23-strong crew in the first hijacking within Maldivian ...

Gunmen released on Sunday their two government teachers hostages in the restive southern Philippines, an official ...

Afghanistan`s defence ministry has begun ordering soldiers who have families in Pakistan to move them to Afghanistan ...

The leader of Russia`s Islamist rebels ordered a halt to attacks on civilians, saying mass opposition protests showed ...

Six kidnapped foreign aid workers have been released in Yemen, the defence ministry said on Thursday, and a military ...

A foreign national kidnapped at the weekend in central Somalia is an American journalist and writer, a regional ...

An attack by Colombian FARC rebels on a radar installation in Cauca province delayed flights in the south of the ...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday the country`s largest rebel group was increasingly selling its ...

Al Qaeda`s North African wing said it will kill its European hostages if France and its allies attack its bases in ...

Somali Islamist rebels stormed a remote police camp in northeastern Kenya, killing seven people and kidnapping several ...

China said Thursday police killed seven "terrorists" who took hostages in the nation`s restive Xinjiang region during ...