#hostages

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, ...

Eight pirates boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by Chevron Corp (CVX.N) off the Nigerian coast and took three ...

Twelve Philippine soldiers were killed and 10 others missing in a clash with the country`s largest Muslim guerrilla ...

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