Colombia’s largest rebel group, which in recent months has launched a string of armed attacks to demonstrate that it is not a spent force after 45 years of...

Melquisedet Angulo Córdova was 30 years old. He had served in the Mexican Navy since 1998 and was the father of two young children. He was killed last week in...

Caqueta state Gov. Luis Francisco Cuellar was found dead Tuesday, Colombian authorities said, less than a day after he was abducted from his home by suspected leftist...

Armed men kidnapped the governor of the south Colombian department of Caqueta on Monday evening. Authorities think rebel group FARC is behind the most high-profile...

A recent surge in kidnapping in Nigeria has seen prominent members of society — from all-singing, all-dancing “Nollywood” film stars, to the elderly father of a...

They called it a “solidarity caravan” — a group of Spanish volunteers delivering truckloads of donated computers, wheelchairs and other gifts for Africa’s...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Friday in an interview, the impossibility of doing away with drugs but believed that the government’s goal should be...

The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army...

Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...

Kidnap of 2 CRPF sweepers has given another twist to the hide and seeks game state and ultras are playing. Right now ultras are having the upper hand. Having rescued...

As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...

The swap deal with Maoists will go down in the history as a huge blunder. In Kashmir the swap deal negotiated with militants for the release of the kin of a senior...

A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said. The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around...

By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...

Somalia’s junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda’s army spokesman says. Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a former...

At knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her girlhood bedroom, she said, then led to a secluded mountain campsite, where a self-proclaimed prophet made her his...

he kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic’s 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as...

WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a...

This is more a human story than news of the dramatic escape of British Hostage Stephen Farrel from Taliban in Afghanistan. Stephen Farrel of New Yorker and his Afgan...

“There was what appeared to be feces on the table and on the floor,” assistant Hamilton County prosecutor David Prem said. Prem was prosecuting Orr, 66,...