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 ...

253 children and 12 staff are still held by kidnappers, church association says Pope appeals for their immediate release Recent kidnappings prompt school closures in northern Nigeria President Tinubu ...

More than 300 children and a dozen teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Saturday. Armed men reportedly stormed the ...

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 ...

MAGA, Nigeria (AP) — A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as ...

Escaping zipties, hiring bodyguards and other practical lessons in self-defense for crypto traders, after a series of gruesome crimes spooked the community. Escaping zipties, hiring bodyguards and ...

Local Nigerien missionaries are shocked and saddened; foreign workers there provide training, aid, and encouragement. On the night of October 21, three unidentified men kidnapped 48-year-old American ...

Editor’s Note: The video above is from KXAN’s newscast on Oct. 31, 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The woman who was found handcuffed to exercise equipment outside a southeast Austin home last week was ...

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." ...

RIVERDALE, Ill. (WLS) -- Four children who were kidnapped in the south suburbs early Saturday morning have been found, and officials are still searching for the man who allegedly took them, police ...

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.