Tag: Hostages

LONDON: A gunman who reportedly held two employees at a bowling alley hostage was arrested Sunday night after armed police moved in. He was...

ISLAMABAD: The High Commissioner for Pakistan to Canada said on Thursday night that Pakistani commandos carried out a raid and there was a shootout...

An American and an Australian have appeared in a Taliban hostage video, five months after they were kidnapped from Kabul. Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted...

Gunmen blew up a car bomb, sprayed gunfire in a crowded area and took hostages in a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad on Monday,...

Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra, on Tuesday freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and police it had held for more than a year in exchange for...

Algeria has warned other nations to prepare for a higher body count from a hostage bloodbath at a gas plant that was overrun in...

Syrian rebel groups have freed 48 Iranians captured last year in exchange for prisoners held by Syrian security services, according to Iran's state-run Press...

Political administration of Khyber Agency on Tuesday confirmed that militants demanded the release of 20 prisoners in exchange for 20 abducted PESCO employees. The...

Families and government officials in Karachi welcomed home Thursday seven Pakistani crews members released by Somali pirates following a $1.1 million ransom payment after...

The Pakistani crew of a pirated Malaysian-flagged container ship, MV Albedo, held hostage by Somali pirates has been reportedly released, a private TV channel...

A self-proclaimed al Qaeda militant took hostages at a bank in the French city of Toulouse on Wednesday, close to where serial killer Mohamed...

Unidentified gunmen attacked a Levies check post in the Jhoi area of Balochistan on Saturday, and made away with their weapons after holding them...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Tuesday said that they had finalized the strategy to free abducted Pakistanis from the custody of Somali pirates. While...

The Danish Navy on Thursday said it had stopped a pirate ship off the Somali coast, rescuing 12 hostages, nine of them Pakistanis, and...

A Swiss couple abducted by the Taliban from Zhob in Balochistan and held captive for over eight months were flown back to Islamabad on...

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday released 17 people after over three months of captivity, who mistakenly crossed the border into Afghanistan, officials said....

Gunmen boarded two fishing vessels just off the coast of Nigeria and took two people hostage, security sources said on Saturday, the latest in...