Kidnapping

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The family of Mark Frerichs on Monday urged U.S. President Joe Biden to fire his...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara State have been released...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The start of the school term has been pushed back to an unusually late date in Nigeria's...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped 20 people in remote Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen invaded a village in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped 18 residents including...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Mobile telephone networks were shut down in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents said on...

(Corrects paragraph 2 to reflect that the journalist is a woman) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sanctioned four...

(Reuters) - Iran on Saturday dismissed new U.S. sanctions on four Iranians over an alleged plot to kidnap an Iranian-American...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Five girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been...

(Reuters) -Armed men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest mass...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Europe's top rights court ruled that Russia had failed to effectively investigate the abduction and murder of prominent...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge on Monday ordered two high-ranking ex-generals to stand trial on genocide charges from...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Ninety children abducted from a school in Nigeria were reunited on Friday with their parents after...

MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen have released students abducted three months ago from an Islamic school in north-central Nigerian state...

By Julia Symmes Cobb LA DORADA, Colombia (Reuters) - When her 17-year-old son Jose Andres was kidnapped by paramilitaries at...

By Abraham Achirga and Libby George TEGINA, Nigeria (Reuters) - After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two Nigerian military personnel and abducted another in an attack on an army training college...

MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six of the 136 students kidnapped from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of...

BAUCHI/KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria,...