Many students of secondary school on Monday besieged the Police Area Command, Nsukka, following killing of one secondary school student, Master Ebuka Omeje, by men of...

Afghanistan’s kidnap economy has not quite reached the heights of Iraq’s at its worst point, but it is certainly a growth industry and shows the same ugly nexus...

Nations distinguish themselves by gestures large and small. In the coming weeks, Brazil will define itself to the United States and to the wider international community...

Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms. In the...

Mexican authorities say armed gunmen have kidnapped the father of former major leaguer Oscar Robles.

Security forces in Nigeria arrested a man for taking a Canadian woman hostage this month, but other kidnappers were still believed to be holding her, police said...

Police in Nigeria say a Canadian woman kidnapped this month in northern Nigeria has been released unharmed.

A Somali official and a clan elder say gunmen have released two European aid workers after holding them for nine days in southwestern Somalia.

Mexican authorities say they have dropped a kidnapping case against a U.S. man and his two sons.

Police say they have arrested a U.S. man and his two sons for allegedly kidnapping the father’s girlfriend.

Police say a man turned himself in Tuesday and was booked on charges of kidnapping two teens from an apartment and fatally shooting them in an abandoned house in New...

The bodies of a two college students kidnapped over the weekend were found Monday inside an abandoned house in a section of New Orleans east of the Mississippi River.

The bodies of a man and a woman kidnapped over the weekend were found Monday inside an abandoned house.

About 25 masked gunmen armed with machine guns kidnapped two foreign aid workers in central Somalia on Sunday, an aid worker and a witness said.

An aid worker says gunmen have kidnapped two foreign aid workers in Somalia.

Police say a Canadian woman has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria.

A Michigan woman accused of kidnapping her daughter and fleeing the country in 2007 has been arrested in Austria.

Somalian pirates: Sea terrorist. “US military chiefs are bolstering their forces around the Horn of Africa to help tackle Somali pirates holding a US captain...

Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...

Imagine answering the telephone to hear an unknown voice with the bloodcurdling screams of your only daughter in the background. The callers voice is calm and cold...