A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected militants left a Philippine hospital Saturday a day after his ordeal ended, looking frail though officials said he was in good health.
Kidnappers in Iraq have freed a Qatari and an Asian who were among more than 20 people abducted from a hunting party in the desert south last December, Qatar said on Wednesday.
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced a man to five years in jail for kidnapping a restaurant worker by threatening him with a pistol, local Arabic daily Arrayah reported.
Nigeria is waiting for the green light from Cameroon to verify a would-be suicide bomber's claim that she is one of 276 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.
The kidnapped son of a liberal Pakistani governor assassinated by his bodyguard was found, senior officials said Tuesday, just over a week after his father's killer was hanged.
