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World
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Africa
2/28/2023 6:06:26 PM
Unidentified militants have kidnapped 25 young people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, an administrative official said on Tuesday, during attacks on several villages in the region.
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World
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Region
2/21/2023 3:44:14 PM
An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/16/2023 2:07:51 PM
Egyptian MP and journalist Mostafa Bakry has filed a briefing request with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry regarding the measures taken by the ministry to secure the release six Egyptian Christian workers who have been kidnapped and held for ransom in Libya for over a week.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/16/2022 6:29:29 PM
The European Union said Friday its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia's military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children.
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World
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Africa
12/10/2022 8:05:17 PM
German aid worker Jorg Lange was freed Saturday more than four and a half years after Islamic extremists kidnapped him in the West African country of Niger, according to Help, the German aid organization where he works.
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World
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Region
12/9/2022 7:23:47 PM
A Sunni cleric in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan was kidnapped and killed, the authorities said Friday -- the latest deadly incident in a region rocked by unrest.
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World
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Africa
11/27/2022 10:24:05 AM
Allies of Ethiopia's federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers.
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World
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International
10/19/2022 12:45:50 PM
French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group to keep a plant operational in Syria, at a time when the militant group was engaged in torturing kidnapped Westerners, and agreed to pay roughly $778 million in penalties.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
10/1/2022 12:40:20 PM
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World
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Africa
9/18/2022 2:47:22 PM
Five priests, a nun and two churchgoers were kidnapped by attackers who set fire to a church in western Cameroon, the Catholic Church said Sunday, the latest violence in an area hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.
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Egypt
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Defence
9/7/2022 11:02:59 PM
The Libyan National Army (LNA) announced on Wednesday that it has killed ISIS terrorist Al-Mahdi Dangou, the mastermind behind the kidnapping and beheading of 20 Egyptian Christians and a Ghanaian Christian in Sirte in 2015.
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World
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Africa
6/21/2022 2:34:47 PM
Gunmen from a criminal gang have kidnapped 36 people after attacking several villages and two churches in northwest Nigeria, a local government official said Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/11/2022 11:07:24 PM
Two Egyptian students kidnapped in South Africa were released on Friday evening after nearly a month in captivity, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement today.
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World
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Region
5/24/2022 12:09:14 PM
Israeli authorities said Tuesday they have foiled a wide-ranging plot by Palestinian militant Hamas group to shoot a member of parliament, kidnap soldiers and bomb Jerusalem's light rail system during a surge of violence that has left dozens dead in recent weeks.
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Egypt
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Society
5/18/2022 1:59:01 PM
The Egyptian embassy in Pretoria is currently working with the South African authorities and ATIS Aviation Academy to free two Egyptian students - Momen Haitham Kamel and Fady Said - who were kidnapped earlier this week in the African country, Minister of Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram said.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
4/18/2022 6:01:47 PM
An Egyptian accountant who was among the crew of the Ramadan TV series 'Betlo' El-Roh' was kidnapped this weekend while filming in Baalbek city, Lebanon.
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World
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International
4/14/2022 9:34:45 PM
El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was found guilty of all charges on Thursday in the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
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World
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Africa
4/11/2022 1:04:30 PM
Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.
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Sports
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World
4/6/2022 8:48:11 PM
Ferran Torres joked on Wednesday he would kidnap Ousmane Dembele to make the winger stay at Barcelona.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/12/2022 11:15:39 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Saturday of kidnapping the mayor of a city, calling it "a new stage of terror.'' Russian forces expanded their offensive in Ukraine, hitting new areas in the country's west.
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