Five Filipino fishermen released after being held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years broke down as they were reunited with their families Friday, recounting beatings and abuse.
Two assailants slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest at a church in northern France on Tuesday in a hostage-taking drama that has shocked the country.
Bangladeshi police killed nine suspected Islamist extremists in a gunbattle on Tuesday after storming a hideout where they said a new mass attack was being planned.
A group of armed men seized a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan along with an unknown number of hostages on Sunday morning, the country's security service said.
A gunman took hostages at a cinema in western Germany on Thursday before police shot him dead, a police spokesman told the N-TV television channel, adding that no other people were injured.
Militants in the Philippines issued a fresh warning Tuesday threatening to harm three hostages, just over a week after they beheaded a captive.
A spokesman for the Hamas movement’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in Gaza yesterday showed pictures of four Israeli soldiers, said to be missing in the Gaza Strip since 2014.
Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya were freed on Friday in a raid on Islamic State group hideouts in a city near the capital, officials in Libya and Rome said.
Gunmen blew up a car bomb, sprayed gunfire in a crowded area and took hostages in a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad Monday, killing at least eight people, police said.
