PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — In a Christmas reunion, families and villagers in north-central Nigeria cried and hugged schoolchildren who were held for a month after being seized in one of the largest mass ...

(CNN) — The remaining 130 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State in November have been released, a presidential spokesman said on Sunday, ...

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 ...

Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass ...

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 ...

The incident occurred before dawn, around 2 a.m. local time, officials said. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria and LONDON -- An unknown number of students and staff were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in an attack ...

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, ...

CLINT, Texas (KVIA) -- Jorge Humberto Centeno, 38, is accused of kidnapping a woman in Clint Tuesday. Deputies were called out to Fitzroy Drive in Clint Tuesday evening on reports of a suspicious car.

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 ...