- Breaking News
- |
- Entertainment
- |
- Sports
- |
- Business
- |
- Politics
- |
- Science
- |
- Technology
- |
- Odd News
- |
- Health
- |
- Law
Hostage Situations
DAKAR, Senegal - A tape released Thursday on a jihadist forum shows the first images of a group of hostages including five French citizens since they were seized two weeks ago in Niger by an al-Qaida offshoot and taken into the desert.
PARIS - The head of the French military says a possible military operation to free seven hostages abducted last week in Niger is not under consideration for the moment.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's official news agency says assailants have abducted six people in the southeast of the country, and Sunni militants waging an insurgency in the region have claimed responsibility.
CHICAGO - Two employees of Discovery Communications described to Oprah Winfrey for her show on Thursday how they were taken hostage after walking into the company's headquarters near Washington and finding a gunman who had them lie on the marble floor.
CHICAGO - A TV producer who was held hostage at Discovery Communications' headquarters near Washington earlier this month says he walked into the building's lobby and saw a man holding a gun to the guard behind the desk.
More News
- Manila officials face charges over hostage crisis
- Manila officials, police face hostage crisis raps
- Philippines says police might have shot hostages
- Police: Gunman holds hostage in Discovery building
- Philippines counts cost of China's fury at deaths
- Hong Kong police inspect Manila hostage bus
- Hong Kong seeks answers to Manila hostage deaths
- North African group says hostage demands were met
- Philippines bus hostage crisis ends with 7 dead
- Ex-policeman in Philippines holds bus hostage
- Prime minister: France is at war against al-Qaida
- Frenchman executed in Africa after failed rescue
- Sarkozy says French aid worker killed in Africa
- Sarkozy holds security meeting over al-Qaida claim
- Al-Qaida in N. Africa says French hostage killed
- Hostages released uninjured from German store
- Man holds several people hostage in German store
- Colombian soldiers free long-held rebel hostages
- Colombian soldiers free long-held rebel hostage
- Sacramento standoff suspect shoots at deputies
- Militants kill 3 hostages in southern Philippines
- Somali militants push toward pirate stronghold
- Iran marks anniversary of failed US rescue attempt
- Only slim hopes for more Colombia hostage releases
- Colombian rebels free hostage after 12 years
- Colombian rebels to free hostage after 12 years
- Colombia's FARC rebels release captive soldier
- Colombian rebels free captive soldier
- Red Cross: Colombian rebels freed captive soldier
- Operation commences to retrieve captive soldier
- Colombian rebel captives' release seems imminent
- Somali official: UK couple to be released soon
- French president visits freed hostage in Mali
- French hostage freed in Mali
- British hostage released alive in Iraq
