A mission to free three hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia stalled Monday, with the rebels and Colombian authorities trading blame for the delay.
A man who appeared on a video shown on an Arabic-language TV network Tuesday is believed to be one of five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad earlier this year, the Canadian-based security firm that employs the man confirmed to CNN.
Police took into custody a man they say walked into Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, and took several people hostage Friday.
South Koreans released from six weeks of captivity in Afghanistan spoke Friday about their ordeal, describing how they were kidnapped and apologizing to their government for causing trouble.
Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages on Thursday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a "great victory for our holy warriors."
South Korea is rejoicing at the deal to release the 19 aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban. But what might Seoul have given up to get them back?
At least 17 people were killed when a Russian-made Mi-8 military transport helicopter crashed in the volatile province of Chechnya Friday.
An armed standoff at a high school in Bailey, Colorado, ended after three hours Wednesday with a hostage and the gunman dead.
Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
Three Western oil workers were released Monday after having been taken captive last month by militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state, a government spokesman told CNN.
A mission to free three hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia stalled Monday, with the rebels and Colombian authorities trading blame for the delay.
A man who appeared on a video shown on an Arabic-language TV network Tuesday is believed to be one of five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad earlier this year, the Canadian-based security firm that employs the man confirmed to CNN.
Police took into custody a man they say walked into Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, and took several people hostage Friday.
South Koreans released from six weeks of captivity in Afghanistan spoke Friday about their ordeal, describing how they were kidnapped and apologizing to their government for causing trouble.
Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages on Thursday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a "great victory for our holy warriors."
South Korea is rejoicing at the deal to release the 19 aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban. But what might Seoul have given up to get them back?
At least 17 people were killed when a Russian-made Mi-8 military transport helicopter crashed in the volatile province of Chechnya Friday.
An armed standoff at a high school in Bailey, Colorado, ended after three hours Wednesday with a hostage and the gunman dead.
Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
Three Western oil workers were released Monday after having been taken captive last month by militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state, a government spokesman told CNN.
Freed British hostage Norman Kember, who was held captive in Iraq for nearly four months, arrived in London on Saturday and thanked the soldiers who rescued him and two others.
The first of three Christian aid workers rescued from nearly four months of captivity in Iraq is returning to his home.
Iraqi insurgents have released a second videotape showing two kidnapped German engineers.
A day after a video of a U.S. journalist held hostage in Iraq aired on Al-Jazeera, a journalists' organization said it plans to work with the Arabic-language media to help gain Jill Carroll's release.
Five German citizens taken hostage in Yemen earlier this week have been freed, the German foreign minister has said.
A U.S. official said Friday that the United States still does not know if anything has happened to Ronald Schulz, an electrician taken hostage in Iraq.
Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera has aired video that appears to show the four peace activists abducted in Iraq last weekend.
Allegations by witnesses of the Beslan hostage crisis, including claims the militants hid weapons in the school beforehand and that the principle helped them, have been disproved by a new investigation, a top prosecutor has said.
A CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages 26 years ago, three government officials told CNN on Friday.
The White House said Thursday it is taking seriously the allegations by former hostages that Iran's hardline president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was one of their captors at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran a quarter century ago.
A Filipino citizen taken hostage in Iraq almost eight months ago has been released from captivity, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has said.
A hostage standoff at an international school in Cambodia ended Thursday with the killing of a Canadian boy and the arrest of four gunmen, authorities said.
Al Jazeera has aired video of three Romanian journalists and a translator held hostage in Iraq since last month and threatened to kill them if Romania fails to withdraw its troops from Iraq within four days of the video's release.
The Indonesian government "will leave no stone unturned" in their effort to free a pair of Indonesian journalists taken hostage in Iraq, Indonesia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Italians have expressed relief at seeing evidence that an Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq is still alive.
Eight Chinese hostages held by an Islamic resistance group in Iraq have been freed, an official from the Chinese Embassy has confirmed.
A Polish woman kidnapped in Baghdad last month has made a surprise appearance in Warsaw saying her captors treated her well but refused to reveal how she was freed.
The relief agency CARE International has shut down all operations in Iraq and urged insurgents to release its director in Bagdhad, Margaret Hassan, who was kidnapped more than a week ago.
The United States tried twice to rescue the two Americans and one British citizen held hostage in Iraq, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the attempts.
Iraqi militants have freed 10 employees of a Turkish construction company taken captive in Iraq in last month, the company's general manager says.
The family of Ken Bigley, the British engineer who was taken hostage in Iraq three weeks ago, has confirmed that he has been killed.
Hostage-takers in Iraq have not made any demands to Jakarta for the release of two Indonesian women seized in Iraq, officials say.
A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq says it has captured 10 hostages, including two Indonesian women, Al-Jazeera has reported.
Controversy continues to surround reports that the Italian government paid a ransom to free two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks.
Gunmen have seized six Egyptian telecommunication workers, Iraqi officials say, the third in a series of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
Turkey's government says it is considering an alternative route for its truck drivers bringing goods into neighboring Iraq in an effort to stem kidnappings.
Teachers and students have returned to school in Beslan, two weeks after a deadly terrorist siege left more than 300 adults and children dead.
The first day of classes following the massacre of more than 330 hostages at a school in this southern Russian city have been abruptly canceled, a principal at one of Beslan's schools has told CNN.
Russia has offered $10 million for information that helps "neutralize" two Chechen rebel leaders, and a military official said Moscow was prepared to strike at terrorists around the world.
A group of 32 terrorists hid in a nearby forest before storming the school in southern Russia last week, according to new details released by Russia's prosecutor-general.
Chilling video from inside the Russian school seized by terrorists last week shows a first-hand glimpse of the horror inside, with hundreds of people huddled in the gymnasium as masked gunmen string up explosives.
Tens of thousands of stunned, sad and angry Russians Tuesday staged a somber demonstration in the nation's capital, protesting and mourning the massacre of at least 335 hostages at a school in the country's restive Caucasus region.
The French government says it still hopes two journalists held hostage in Iraq will be freed but that it does not want to put at risk their release by talking about the issue too much.
The death toll in the Russian hostage crisis has climbed beyond 350 as President Vladimir Putin denounced the massacre as "an attack on our country."
The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over, an emergency official said late Friday, but more than 200 people have died.
Hopes that the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq could be freed soon rise following reports they have been transferred to guerrillas willing to negotiate their release.
At least 26 women and children have been freed by militants holding hundreds more people hostage at a school in southern Russia, Interfax news agency Interfax reports.
A U.S. airstrike targeted two safe houses used by followers of reputed terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Falluja, U.S. officials said.
A reporter on the scene of the school siege in southern Russia has told CNN that negotiations have broken down, and militants holding hundreds of children hostage have turned off their mobile phones.
Russian authorities now believe there may be hundreds more children, parents and teachers being held hostage at a school in southern Russia than originally thought, CNN Correspondent Ryan Chilcote says.
A tense standoff between Russian authorities and attackers who seized at least 100 hostages -- possibly as many as 400 -- at a school in southern Russia continued Thursday with little progress reported.
Seven truck drivers taken hostage in Iraq over a month ago have been released, according to their employer, Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport company.
French President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to secure the release of two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq.
The U.S. says the 32 nations in the multinational force in Iraq are united in not making concessions to hostage takers.
Clashes between police and insurgents in the northern city of Mosul left 12 Iraqis dead and 26 wounded, hospital and police sources said Wednesday.
Recently, while investigating a story about hostages kidnapped in Iraq, I got closer to the hostage-takers than I would have liked.
The government of Kenya on Thursday released the names of three citizens kidnapped in Iraq, along with four other men, by a group that has threatened to behead them if their demands are not met.
The Saudi employer of an Egyptian hostage in Iraq says it has met the demands of kidnappers by pulling out of the country, according to an Arabic-language TV channel.
The Philippines is recalling the chief of its humanitarian force and 10 other personnel in Iraq as part of efforts to comply with the demands of kidnappers.
The abductors of an Egyptian hostage in Iraq have given his Saudi employer 48 hours to prove the company has left Iraq, the Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera reported Thursday.
Two Bulgarian hostages may still be alive, according to an Iraqi police chief, despite reports that one of them had been executed by Iraqi militants.
A Bulgarian government spokesman confirmed reports Wednesday that one of two Bulgarians held hostage in Iraq had been killed.
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry says it has information indicating two of its citizens held hostage in Iraq are alive, although a reported deadline set by the kidnappers had expired.
The Bulgaria government believes that two of its citizens held hostage in Iraq may still be alive, even though a reported deadline set by kidnappers has expired.
A Lebanese national and two Iraqi co-workers who had been taken hostage have been found shot dead, a Lebanese diplomat in Baghdad said Saturday.
For the second day this week, news footage Thursday showed members of an obscure militant group holding Turkish workers and issuing anti-coalition messages.
Three Italians held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months have arrived home to an emotional welcome.
Three Italians held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months and a Polish citizen have been freed as a result of a military operation, according to the U.S.-led coalition.
The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera showed video Wednesday of three Italian hostages taken captive in Iraq nearly two months ago. In the video, one of the men said the captors were treating them "excellently."
More than 24 hours after attackers stormed a compound housing oil workers in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 11 people, a hostage standoff between police and the gunmen has ended, according to Saudi authorities.
Saudi Arabian government officials Sunday blamed al Qaeda terrorists for a series of weekend attacks in the oil city of Khobar that left at least 22 people dead -- 19 of them from other countries.
Rescue helicopters carrying Saudi security forces dropped them off on the roof of a building Sunday at a residential complex in Khobar where hostages -- perhaps about 50 -- have been held by gunmen since Saturday.
Two Russians abducted by guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned Italians not to send the wrong signal to kidnappers holding three of their countrymen in Iraq.
The families of three Italians held hostage in Iraq have led a march in Rome after the abductors threatened to kill the captives unless Italians protested against the war.
Italian politicians have condemned a threat by Iraqi militants to kill three hostages unless Italians protest over the presence of their country's troops in Iraq.
(CNN) -- Here is the latest information CNN has on hostages or those missing in Iraq:
Pope John Paul II has called on Iraqi kidnappers to show "humanity" and free their hostages.
Terry Anderson, a former Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press, was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1985 by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. He was held captive for nearly seven years.
Here is the latest information CNN has on hostages or those missing in Iraq:
Three Czech journalists held hostage in Iraq say they were moved from place to place by their abductors and handed off to different groups during their captivity.
Three Czech journalists held hostage in Iraq say they were moved from place to place by their abductors and handed off to different groups during their captivity.
Three Japanese civilians taken hostage in Iraq and threatened on video to be burned alive may be be home as soon as Saturday afternoon.
Three Japanese civilians taken hostage and threatened on video to be burned alive unless Japan pulled out of Iraq have been released.
The Italian foreign minister has confirmed that one of a group of four Italian hostages in Iraq has been executed.
A spate of civilian hostage taking in Iraq is continuing despite an anti-kidnapping decree issued by Muslim clerics.
U.S. officials are insisting the situation in Iraq is improving despite a surge in violence that has made April the deadliest month of combat for the U.S. military since last year's invasion.
A U.S. Army Apache helicopter was brought down by unidentified ground fire west of Baghdad on Sunday, military sources said, despite a cease-fire that was in effect in the region.
The armed militants who appear to have taken an American civilian hostage in Iraq said Saturday that their captive may face harsh treatment if U.S. forces don't leave Fallujah within 12 hours.
A 10 p.m. ET deadline set by the armed militants in Iraq, who have taken hostage a man who appears to be American, has passed with no word on whether he has been released.
As protesters demand the recall of Japanese troops from Iraq, Japan has set up an emergency headquarters in Jordan to work on the release of three of its citizens taken hostage in Iraq.
Japan is standing by its refusal to withdraw its troops from Iraq, saying it would be "playing into the hands of the terrorists" who have threatened to kill three Japanese hostages if the forces remain.
Three Japanese citizens are among a number of civilians taken hostage in Iraq, where fighting between insurgents and coalition troops has escalated in recent days.
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