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Centre in touch with Interpol for hostages release: Tewari

Centre is in constant touch with Interpol for securing safe release of five Indian hostages held cap...

French family abducted by Boko Haram in Cameroon freed

French family of seven, including four children, kidnapped at gunpoint in northern Cameroon by Niger...

Yemeni president vows to free Western hostages

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi vowed Sunday to use force to release a Finnish couple kidnap...

`Won`t pay ransom for securing release of hostages`

Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana Monday said the state government wants to secure the release of ...

Video shows bodies of foreign hostages in Nigeria

A video posted online appears to show the corpses of some of the seven foreign hostages abducted by ...

Italy, UK, Greece confirm murder of hostages in Nigeria

Britain, Italy and Greece have confirmed that hostages from their countries were among seven constru...

Syrian rebels treated UN hostages like `guests`

Rebels who held 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers in Syria put blankets on their hostages to help them sle...

Six foreign hostages executed in Nigeria

Seven "Christian foreigners" taken hostage by a Nigerian Islamic terror group are feared t...

Video claims Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages

A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted on...

Cameroon President orders rescue of French hostages

Rampant search is underway in Cameron for vacationing of a French family held hostage.

Al Qaeda-linked militants free 2 Filipino hostages

Abu Sayyaf gunmen have freed two Filipino members of a Jordanian TV journalist`s crew who were kidna...

Philippine extremists refuse to free hostages

Al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the Philippines have refused to free foreign hostages after two...

37 foreign hostages died in siege: Algerian PM

A total of 37 foreign hostages of eight countries were killed during the four-day standoff with mili...

37 foreigner hostages killed in attack in Algeria

Algeria`s prime minister says 37 foreign hostages were killed during the four-day-long standoff at a...

Algerian forces free 650 hostages from militants

Around 650 hostages detained by an armed group at a gas field in Algeria have been freed, the offici...

In Algeria raid, 35 hostages and 15 kidnappers killed

Algeria raided a remote Sahara gas plant in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by mi...

Algeria troops surround Islamists holding hostages

The Algerian Army on Thursday surrounded a natural gas complex where Islamist militants have taken d...

Somali pirates holding 11 ships, 167 crewmen for ransom: IMB

Somali pirates are still holding 11 foreign vessels for ransom with 167 crew members as hostages as ...

Hostage for 2 years, seven Indians plead for help

A group of sailors taken hostage by Somali pirates nearly two years ago have appealed to the governm...

Taliban take hostages in police station in Pak

Gunmen attacked the Old City Police Station of Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.

American tourists kidnapped in Egypt

Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide were abducted 5 km away from Sadr al-Hitan district i...

Philippines: Ransom sought for 2 Chinese hostages

On June 04, six armed men barged into the rented house of two Chinese traders and dragged them into ...

Danish Navy frees hostages from pirates off Somali

The Danish Navy captured 16 Somali pirates and freed 12 captives when it intercepted a vessel off th...

No word on progress on release of Odisha hostages

The deadline given by Maoist mediators for resumption of talks in the Italian hostage crisis ends ...

Odisha hostage crisis: Maoists free one Italian

Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda handed over Claudio Colangelo to a selected group of media persons so...

Italian hostages: Negotiator doubts govt

A day after the Maoists named three negotiators to talk to the Odisha government on the Italian ho...

Hostage crisis: Maoists name 3 persons for talks

Maoists named Narayan Sanyal, Politburo member of CPI (Maoist), civil rights activists Dandapani Moh...

Pak: `Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unsafe for foreigners`

Whether for tourists or people engaged in humanitarian or relief work, Pakistan`s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Expect to free hostages soon: Colombian rebels

The FARC said it was waiting for the President to permit a group of activists to visit jailed guerri...

Swiss couple held by Taliban is free: Pakistan

Militants and criminal gangs often kidnap wealthy Pakistanis and less commonly foreigners.

British, Italian hostages killed in Nigeria

Two Europeans held hostage in Nigeria by kidnappers claiming ties to al-Qaida were killed before res...

Denmark: 2 hostages dead in anti-piracy operation

Denmark`s Navy says two hostages have been killed in an anti-piracy operation off Somalia.

Colombia`s FARC to stop kidnapping for ransom

Colombia`s feared FARC rebel group said it would free all military and police hostages it holds in ...

Somali captors move US hostage after SEAL raid

US Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia early Wednesday and hiked to where captors were holding Americ...

French spies among 5 hostages held by Qaeda

Al Qaeda`s North African wing has claimed responsibility for kidnapping five foreigners in Mali last...

Somali pirates release tanker, keep 4 hostages

Somali pirates have kept back four South Korean crew members of the ship including its captain.

FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages: Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has a policy of killing hostages if troops approach their...

FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages: Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has a policy of killing hostages if troops approach their...

Philippine rebels release more hostages: Military

Philippine communist rebels freed a town mayor and his two military escorts after more than two mont...

Swiss hostages held in Pakistan appear in video

Two Swiss tourists held by the Pak Taliban have appeared in a video, saying their captors are threat...

Philippine rebels release more hostages: Military

It has about 5,000 fighters scattered mostly in the country`s impoverished countryside, where they ...

Osama `wanted to use hostages against Sarkozy`

A report said Osama had issued written instructions to AQIM members on how to handle a group of host...

Pak mounts search for Swiss hostages: Official

The swiss couple were kidnapped while travelling in impoverished and sparsely populated Baluchistan...

Qaeda-style attack on Iraq council building

Attackers set off two car bombs outside a government compound east of Baghdad mirroring a similar Ma...

Somali pirates release six Indian hostages

Somali pirates released 22 crew members, including six Indians.

Inmates free 15 hostages at Venezuela prison

Captives were freed after authorities pledged to probe prisoners` complaints.

Danish crew free Somali pirate hostages

A Danish warship attacked a pirate boat off Somalia, killing four pirates.

Inmates free hostages at Venezuela prison

During 2009, 366 deaths were reported at Venezuela`s prisons.

Al Qaeda releases tape from French hostages

The hostages called for France to respond to the militant group`s demand.

Taliban release Iranian hostages, says Afghan police

An Afghan police official says that a group of Iranian road construction workers kidnapped earlier ...

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