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Two French humanitarian workers were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in Afghanistan and spirited out of the house they were sleeping in
My favorite made-for-TV movies are those based on true stories, especially true stories involving jealous friends or spouses who go on sleazy killing rampages.
Gunmen kidnapped the younger brother of Nigerian soccer star Joseph Yobo Saturday, police said.
More than 50 children have been abducted in Haiti since the beginning of the year, adding to a trend of kidnappings in countries affected by violence, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report.
The FBI is investigating the alleged kidnapping for ransom of a 26-year-old Florida private pilot who has been missing since April 1, a spokesman said Friday.
The U.S. military in Iraq recently received the severed fingers of five men kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Dorko was injured Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad, Pentagon sources said.
Two Italian soldiers who were kidnapped in western Afghanistan over the weekend have been freed in an operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Italy's defense minister said.
When two men snatched a 7-year-old at gunpoint from a drug-plagued neighborhood this summer, they hoped to get $250,000 in ransom.
A German woman is the latest victim of a trend that is targeting not only foreigners but locals as well
Two French humanitarian workers were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in Afghanistan and spirited out of the house they were sleeping in
My favorite made-for-TV movies are those based on true stories, especially true stories involving jealous friends or spouses who go on sleazy killing rampages.
Gunmen kidnapped the younger brother of Nigerian soccer star Joseph Yobo Saturday, police said.
More than 50 children have been abducted in Haiti since the beginning of the year, adding to a trend of kidnappings in countries affected by violence, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report.
The FBI is investigating the alleged kidnapping for ransom of a 26-year-old Florida private pilot who has been missing since April 1, a spokesman said Friday.
The U.S. military in Iraq recently received the severed fingers of five men kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, a law enforcement source told CNN.
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Dorko was injured Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad, Pentagon sources said.
Two Italian soldiers who were kidnapped in western Afghanistan over the weekend have been freed in an operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Italy's defense minister said.
When two men snatched a 7-year-old at gunpoint from a drug-plagued neighborhood this summer, they hoped to get $250,000 in ransom.
A German woman is the latest victim of a trend that is targeting not only foreigners but locals as well
Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill is recovering in Nigeria after she was released by kidnappers who had held her for four days.
Nigerian kidnappers released a 3-year-old British girl on Sunday after holding her for four days, and no ransom was paid, according to Nigerian police sources close to the investigation.
Alan Johnston's release is a publicity coup for the group, which wants to show it can bring stability to Gaza
Gunmen who kidnapped a 3-year-old British girl in Nigeria have demanded money and talks to secure her release are about to start, the girl's mother said on Friday.
Western advisors are the target this time, and initial suspicion is focusing on the Mahdi Army
The parents of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped last month in Gaza, have appealed for news of his condition after an unknown militant group said it had killed him.
The BBC said Sunday it is "deeply concerned" about an unknown militant group's claim that it has killed a BBC reporter kidnapped last month in Gaza, but is treating the statement as a "rumor with no independent verification."
BBC director general Mark Thompson appealed for the release of journalist Alan Johnston Thursday, a month after he was abducted at gunpoint in Gaza City, saying he was increasingly concerned about the reporter's welfare.
Every time I hear of a kidnapping in Gaza, a chill goes down my spine. In the case of Alan Johnston, the BBC's seasoned Gaza correspondent who disappeared a week ago, the chills are even worse. They've crawled up and down my spine ever since he vanished.
The BBC has appealed for any information about Alan Johnston, the network's correspondent in Gaza who is believed to have been kidnapped in the Palestinian territory a week ago.
The British Broadcasting Corporation said Monday it believes its correspondent in Gaza may have been kidnapped.
A newborn girl was reunited with her mother on Sunday at a Lubbock, Texas, hospital after police arrested a woman in connection with her kidnapping, authorities said.
A 13-year-old boy left bound and gagged in a remote patch of Florida countryside used a safety pin, a stick and his teeth to free himself from captivity, his family said Tuesday.
Iraq's government spokesman said Tuesday that the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad told his country that an Iranian diplomat believed to have been kidnapped days ago instead had been arrested.
The parents of a 15-year-old boy who was found last week in the apartment of his alleged abductor said they expect him to testify in court if necessary.
The parents of the 15-year-old boy who was found last week in the apartment of his alleged abductor believe their son was sexually assaulted by his apparent captor, they told Oprah Winfrey in a show that aired Thursday.
The uncle of the U.S. soldier abducted in Baghdad last month said his nephew is believed to have been kidnapped by breakaway elements of a notorious Shiite militia.
Most of those kidnapped Tuesday from a Baghdad research institute have been freed, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official told CNN.
The family of a young Austrian woman who has escaped after an 8-year kidnapping ordeal has said it always believed she would one day come back.
The family of Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni, kidnapped nearly a week ago along with a cameraman in Gaza, appealed for information about his condition in a videotaped statement that aired Sunday.
More than 14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the first half of this year, an ominous figure reflecting the fact that "killings, kidnappings and torture remain widespread" in the war-torn country, a United Nations report says.
Nigerian militants on Wednesday staged a bloody attack on an oil facility in the Port Harcourt area, abducting five South Korean oil workers to be held until two imprisoned local leaders are freed from jail, militants told CNN.
A year after American businessman Jeffrey Ake was kidnapped in Iraq, his wife, Liliana, spoke publicly on Tuesday for the first time to plead for her husband's release.
A toddler who was snatched last month in a high-profile kidnapping has been found dead, according to Italian media reports.
Nearly three months after she was abducted in Baghdad, American journalist Jill Carroll walked into the office of a Sunni Arab political party Thursday and asked if she could call the U.S. Embassy, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party said.
An Iraqi television station has begun airing announcements seeking the release of Christian Science Monitor freelance journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in early January.
Citing sources close to the kidnappers, Alrai Television in Kuwait reported Friday that U.S. journalist Jill Carroll's kidnappers set "a final deadline of February 26" for their demands to be met.
The mood was tense at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, the...
The mood was tense at the Bel Age hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, then 42, the billionaire hedge fund manager who had just engineered an unlikely takeover of their venerable but struggling company.
Representatives from an American Muslim group are in Iraq to join efforts to free U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped two weeks ago in Baghdad.
Representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations arrived in Baghdad to urge kidnappers to release U.S. journalist Jill Carroll.
Dozens of journalists and Western civilians have been kidnapped in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion, but few victims have commanded the Muslim sympathy that freelance writer Jill Carroll has garnered.
The family and company of an American oil worker in captivity in Nigeria have said they are worried about his health, following reports from his kidnappers that he is gravely ill and could die.
With the kidnappers' Friday deadline looming, the newspaper for which abducted American journalist Jill Carroll works said Wednesday that it is "availing itself of every option we can think of to secure her release."
An American journalist's kidnappers threatened to kill her unless the United States releases all female Iraqi prisoners within 72 hours, the Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera said after it aired a video showing her Tuesday.
Iran's interior minister accused the United States on Saturday of orchestrating the kidnapping of nine Iranian border guards with the help of Sunni militant groups linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda, according to a report.
Italians rejoiced Sunday with the news that four of their countrymen had been released by separate groups of kidnappers in Yemen and Gaza.
An Italian man who was abducted in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis has been released, Palestinian security sources say.
Hoping to dissuade the hostage takers from killing four peace activists on Thursday -- as they have reportedly threatened -- Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq issued another appeal Tuesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Wednesday that her government would "not be blackmailed" by kidnappers of a German woman archaeologist in Iraq.
Four Western aid workers in Iraq, including two from Canada and one from Britain, have been kidnapped, according to British and Canadian government officials.
In March 2003, missing Salt Lake City, Utah, teenager Elizabeth Smart was found alive after being kidnapped and held captive for nearly nine months. Almost three years after her ordeal, the 17-year-old high school senior's life is getting back to normal, and she works as a quiet activist for missing children.
Dutch police have freed the daughter of a millionaire businessman kidnapped earlier this week, state television reported on Thursday.
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Australia has issued a travel warning over possible terrorist kidnappings from Malaysian coastal resorts, islands and dive sites off the east coast of Sabah.
A Filipino citizen taken hostage in Iraq almost eight months ago has been released from captivity, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has said.
An Italian aid worker freed after three weeks as a hostage in Afghanistan has arrived home.
An Italian aid worker held hostage in Afghanistan has been released after more than three weeks in captivity, according to Italian and Afghan officials.
A Florida teenager accused of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl, cramming her into a recycle bin and leaving her at an abandoned landfill was indicted Thursday on adult charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and rape.
Instead of being the center of a lavish wedding Saturday night, Jennifer Wilbanks flew home to Georgia from New Mexico, where she surfaced early Saturday morning after a nationwide missing-person search.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq early Tuesday on an unannounced visit, hours after a U.S. Embassy official said a U.S. citizen working for a contracting company was kidnapped from a construction site in Baghdad.
An Iraqi-Swedish Christian politician who was kidnapped in Baghdad in January has been freed, Sweden's foreign ministry said on Friday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says the intelligence agent shot dead by the U.S. military told them he would be escorting a newly released hostage to the airport -- contrary to U.S. claims.
Two Indonesian journalists freed by militants in Iraq have spoken about their ordeal, and are reportedly waiting at the Jordanian border for permission to leave Iraq.
A Polish woman kidnapped in Baghdad last month has made a surprise appearance in Warsaw saying her captors treated her well but refused to reveal how she was freed.
Dublin-born and raised in Britain, Margaret Hassan dedicated much of her life to improving the lives of ordinary people of Iraq.
At least two members of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's family have been kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad, amid conflicting reports from government officials and sources close to the family.
A Lebanese-American man was kidnapped late Tuesday from Baghdad's al-Mansour district, a day after six others -- including an American -- were abducted from the same neighborhood, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
A car bomb near a government building in Baghdad killed at least six people on Tuesday and U.S. warplanes struck insurgent targets in Falluja overnight, authorities said.
The relief agency CARE International has shut down all operations in Iraq and urged insurgents to release its director in Bagdhad, Margaret Hassan, who was kidnapped more than a week ago.
Hours after a kidnapped humanitarian aid worker tearfully pleaded for her life in a video released Friday by her captors, the secretary-general of CARE International urged the kidnappers to release Margaret Hassan unharmed.
Hours after a kidnapped humanitarian aid worker tearfully pleaded for her life in a video released Friday by her captors, the head of CARE International urged the kidnappers to release Margaret Hassan unharmed.
The CARE International charity has suspended its operations in Iraq the day after the aid agency's chief of operations was kidnapped in Baghdad.
The Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad.
Pakistan is vowing to pursue and punish the leader behind a kidnapping that ended in the death of one Chinese hostage.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed to kidnappers in Iraq to release British hostage Ken Bigley, Libya's official JANA news agency said.
An Iraqi man who has lived in Italy since 1980 has been killed by abductors in Iraq, his brother said Monday.
Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has condemned the broadcasting of the most recent video of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, saying it is "repugnant" to use him as a "political pawn."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed that if the kidnappers of countryman Kenneth Bigley contact a British official, "we'd respond to it immediately."
Controversy continues to surround reports that the Italian government paid a ransom to free two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks.
Gunmen have seized six Egyptian telecommunication workers, Iraqi officials say, the third in a series of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
The Turkish Embassy in Baghdad said Sunday that 10 employees of a U.S.-Turkish company were kidnapped in Iraq, a day after the wife of an American held captive in Iraq pleaded for his life.
Two Americans and a Briton were seized by kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad early Thursday, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior representative told CNN.
Two Americans and a Briton were seized by a group of kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad early Thursday, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior spokesperson told CNN.
Four Iraqis were killed Saturday in separate incidents and the wife and three children of an Iraqi National Guard officer were kidnapped.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called a crisis meeting and urged a united front in the face of the kidnapping of two Italian women working for an aid organization in Iraq.
The French fiancee of a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Iraq has made an appeal for his release, saying her partner was only doing his job.
A British journalist kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Basra by militants and threatened with death has been released.
The U.S. says the 32 nations in the multinational force in Iraq are united in not making concessions to hostage takers.
Recently, while investigating a story about hostages kidnapped in Iraq, I got closer to the hostage-takers than I would have liked.
Egyptian officials in Cairo and Washington dismissed a CNN report Tuesday that their government paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom for the release of an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq.
Captors in Iraq released an Egyptian diplomat Monday after declining a large ransom and citing his polite and spiritual personality as the reason for his liberation.
Gunmen abducted the chief of a government-owned construction company in Iraq on Saturday, according to a Ministry of Interior spokesman.
Abductors holding a Filipino in Iraq have promised to release him on Tuesday, a source in the Philippine embassy in Baghdad has said.
Three Italians held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months and a Polish citizen have been freed as a result of a military operation, according to the U.S.-led coalition.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned Italians not to send the wrong signal to kidnappers holding three of their countrymen in Iraq.
Pope John Paul II has called on Iraqi kidnappers to show "humanity" and free their hostages.
Three Japanese civilians taken hostage and threatened on video to be burned alive unless Japan pulled out of Iraq have been released.
The Italian foreign minister has confirmed that one of a group of four Italian hostages in Iraq has been executed.
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