Kidnapping

ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to have four senior members of Egypt’s security services sent…

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped around 30 students overnight from a forestry college near a military…

An armed gang has abducted an unknown number of children in an attack on a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, a…

It was past 10:00 on a Friday night, and the party was in full swing. Hundreds of young men and…

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released,…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in…

BAGHDAD (AP) — A German arts curator who was kidnapped earlier this week was freed Friday by Iraqi security forces,…

Rights activist and art curator Hella Mewis was kidnapped outside her office in Baghdad by unidentified men. The abduction is…

A female university student from Giza abducted her boyfriend to force him to marry her, after he told her that…

Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls…