By Benjamin Sand Kabul 11 August 2007 Taleban insurgents say they may release 21 South Korean hostages more than three weeks after they kidnapped them. The word came as the insurgents held a second day of face-to-face talks with South Korean official...
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 10 August 2007 Gunmen seized a foreign national in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt early Friday. The man, a British national, is the latest victim of kidnapping for ransom in the troubled Niger Delta where gangland violence...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 22 July 2007 South Korean man reads a newspaper reporting South Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan in downtown Seoul, 22 Jul 2007 Afghan military officials say national and foreign forces have launched a major operation to fr...
By Gary Thomas Tehran 17 July 2006 Twenty-seven years ago, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 embassy staff members hostage and holding most of them for more than a year. VOA correspondent Gary Thomas, who is i...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 March 2006 watch Jill Carroll profile American journalist Jill Carroll has been released by her captors in Iraq, nearly three months after she was kidnapped at gunpoint....
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 21 February 2006 Local women dry tapioca near a flow station burning gas in Warri, Nigeria Hostage takers in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta want neutral negotiators to secure...
News Spotlight (1) 新闻聚光灯 The Moscow Hostage Crisis October 24 On to Russia now where a group of heavily-armed Chechen rebels is holding up to 700 theatre-goers hostage in a daring overnight...
IN THE NEWS -February 23, 2002: New US Hostage Policy By Caty Weaver Richard Boucher This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. The United States has made changes in its po...
By Michael Kitchen Afghan kidnappers holding three foreign United Nations workers hostage say they are now considering whether to kill, hold or release their captives. The Afghan government is hopeful...
By Bill Gasperini Police say over a dozen heavily-armed men and women stormed into a school just as students and teachers entered the building on the first day of classes in the new school year. There...
