#kidnapped

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

An unidentified Italian hostage has been released in Sudan`s Darfur region, the Sudan Media Centre, close to the ...

The top US envoy on North Korea arrived in Tokyo on Sunday on the latest leg of his first Asian tour in the wake of ...

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

Gunmen on Monday kidnapped an Australian man living in the violence-plagued southern Philippines, the military ...

Kenyan police arrested five men on Friday suspected of being members of Somalia`s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab ...

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

IRI Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi in a message addressed to Head of Libyan Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul ...

A disabled Frenchwoman who was snatched by gunmen from her beachfront home at a Kenyan resort and taken to ...

Israel is releasing 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in a two-stage operation that ...

Palestinian groups are planning celebrations to mark Israel`s imminent release of hundreds of prisoner "heroes" in ...

US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 combat troops to central Africa to help and advise forces ...

Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said Friday it has pulled all its foreign staff from Kenya`s Dadaab refugee camp ...

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

Two members of Kenya`s navy were missing after their boat capsized while chasing suspected Somali gunmen who had ...