Police in Minnesota said Thursday that a federal agent was briefly kidnapped during a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operation close to Minneapolis. The agent, working with Homeland Security ...

The gang that abducted a group of young women in Nigeria's northeast state of Borno a week ago released the remaining 12 late Saturday, a local official told AFP. Their release comes as the country ...

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...

Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have ...

A woman who was kidnapped, drugged and being trafficked stabbed her captor and fled on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Wednesday, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by police. Police ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Three people are facing charges after a north Harris County man says he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to have sex by a woman who identified herself as "Cookie." ...

Johannesburg — Multiple security sources in the West African nation of Niger told CBS News on Wednesday that an American national was kidnapped from his home in the capital Niamey on Tuesday night.

The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect ...

NIAMEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - An American missionary was kidnapped in Niger's capital Niamey, three security sources said on Wednesday. The missionary, who is a pilot for the evangelical missionary ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A 28-year-old New York man was arrested outside an outdoor mall in Chino Hills on allegations that he, along with ...

Screams for help led rescuers to a kidnapped woman who called 911, California police say. Three men, Sergio Godinez-Lopez, 24, Christopher Monteroso, 21, and Jonathan Valenzuela-Castro, 21, were ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police investigate the Thursday afternoon kidnapping of an Algiers boy. The boy told Fox 8 Friday morning the men abducted him on his way home from school but that he ...