#hostages

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 ...

Al-Qaeda`s North African wing claimed responsibility for kidnapping five foreigners in Mali last month, describing two ...

Twelve of 13 Indonesian nationals released recently by Somali pirates who had taken them hostage arrived at Jakarta`s ...

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