Katherine Jane Wilson was grabbed in the city of Jalalabad, close to the border with Pakistan, in late April
Video footage from a California store earlier this month shows the moment a man tried to kidnap a 4-year-old girl. In the incident, which took place ...
The Australians could be released from custody within a matter of hours, according to the network
A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected extremist militants left a Philippines hospital
Lebanese police say they detained four Australian citizens on suspicion they were involved in the kidnapping of two children
US citizens are urged to avoid Tunisian political gatherings, large crowds and demonstrations and to be alert to the possibility of kidnapping
Their disappearance may have been related to organized crime and the drugs and arms trade
An Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said the Turkish construction workers were taken in the northeastern district of Habibiya
At a time of terror, warfare, suspicion and misunderstanding, reaching out to “the good in the other” is ever more important
Spain says it is trying to establish what happened to three Spanish freelance journalists reported to have gone missing
The men were identified as Jan Švarc, Adam Homsi, Miroslav Dobeš, Merlin Pešek and Pavel Kofroň
Nigeria's Boko Haram are offering to free young women and girls kidnapped in exchange for the release of militant leaders
Tunisia's decisionowing to close its consular operations in Libya's capital came following the abduction of 10 staffers
Journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan ultimately were released in November 2009 after months of captivity
An armed group stormed the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan capital Tripoli and kidnapped 10 staff
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel says his kidnappers turned out to be Sunnis and not Shiite militias
A march is expected in the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the mass kidnapping
News of the kidnappings had been kept quiet because of ongoing negotiations for their release,
The unidentified gunmen took off in the direction of the nearby border with Mali
Islamist insurgents have released 300 Kurdish men in the country’s north who were taken captive on Sunday
Abbas Yazdi, a businessman of Iranian descent who owns a general trading company in Dubai, disappeared in June 2013
Security sources said earlier on Tuesday that gunmen had kidnapped a French woman and her Yemeni driver
Foreign nationals have often been kidnapped in Nigeria by local gangs who typically release hostages following a ransom payment
UNICEF estimates there are at least 12,000 children used by both sides in South Sudan’s ongoing civil war
Ms Szymanowicz was shopping in Mothercare when the child’s father Maher Belaid abducted the 15-week-old Talia
Muftah Marzuq, head of the council of elders in the coastal city of Sirte, insisted that the 13 had not been kidnapped
Two women identifying themselves as Italian aid workers kidnapped in Syria have appeared in a video urging their government to seek their release
With a toy AK-47 assault rifle slung round his chest, the boy can be seen on an image released by the group
'ISIS effect' was a prime factor in the high Mideast figure, according to Reporters Without Borders
Kidnapping is common in U.S.-allied Yemen, where the government is struggling to contain an insurgency from Islamists
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