#hostages

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, ...

Up to 15 people were killed on Monday after Iraqi security forces fought gunmen and suicide bombers who had seized ...

A general was killed and 30 other troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were taken hostage when ...

European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to ...

Four people were thought to have been kidnapped by pirates after international forces found a French yacht lying ...

Police shot dead four "rioters" in China`s far west on Sunday after at least three people, including a policeman, were ...

China on Wednesday raised the death toll to 18 from a clash at a police station in the restive far western region of ...

At least four people including a police officer were killed when a crowd attacked a police station in China`s restive ...

A gunman killed seven people, including two children, in two homes in western Michigan on Thursday and then led police ...

African leaders sought backing for a roadmap out of the Libyan conflict at a summit Thursday where an invited ...

Indian police have detained 18 suspected Somali pirates -- the second batch to be taken into custody in Gujarat state ...

The Chinese government is hoping that its military cooperation with Indonesia will increase in the future, the ...

Three Bulgarian helicopter crew on a UN contract kidnapped in Sudan`s troubled Darfur region were released on Monday ...