Hostages

More troops arrive in Egypt's Sinai over hostages

20 hours, 30 minutes ago

More troops arrive in Egypt's Sinai over hostages

Police: Gun used in NJ hostage standoff was fake

4 days ago

Stephen Jones says hostage-taker Gerald Tyrone Murphy had a replica semi-automatic handgun.

Autopsy: NJ hostage-taker shot, woman stabbed

8 days ago

Autopsy: NJ hostage-taker shot, woman stabbed

Police: Armed man holding hostages in Trenton

11 days ago

Police say an armed man with multiple hostages is barricaded inside a Trenton home in a standoff that has lasted approximately 12 hours.

Danish, Filipino hostages freed in Somalia

21 days ago

The Danish government has announced the release of two Danes and four Filipinos who were held hostage in Somalia for more than two years after their ship was attacked by pirates.

Nigeria: French hostage and family in new video

64 days ago

A French hostage has spoken in a video filmed three days ago with his family, weeks after extremists kidnapped them from northern Cameroon.

Tense standoff in Greece over prison hostages

65 days ago

Officials in Greece's justice ministry also said Sunday that Rizaj is holding five hostages at the central Malandrino prison, with another having either escaped or been released.

France: Discretion needed to free Nigeria hostages

66 days ago

Laurent Fabius said Saturday that it was important to free the hostages, which include a child younger than five.

Nigeria: Video shows bodies of foreign hostages

71 days ago

An online video also purportedly claims that Boko Haram is currently holding hostage a family of seven French tourists who were abducted from neighboring Cameroon in late February.