abduction

GUSAU, Nigeria—Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces ...

KANO, Nigeria—Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in ...

MEXICO CITY—The body of a missing Mexican congresswoman from the western state of Colima has been found in ...

A Family have been left shaken after their son was followed by a car of men who attempted ...

A car linked to an Amber Alert issued for a 2-year-old boy and his "armed and dangerous" father ...

A 6-year-old New Jersey girl escaped a possible abduction after a stranger forced a paper bag over her ...

A one-year-old North Carolina boy who was kidnapped on Aug. 11 was found safe on Monday, police said. ...

Authorities have concluded their 4-day search for a missing Huntington Beach woman who disappeared Friday, July 12, while ...

A juvenile girl who was targeted by an individual in a car on June 17 used her quick ...

Police and volunteers are searching for a 15-year-old from West Virginia who has been missing for a week ...

KELOWNA, B.C.—A man is awaiting a court appearance in Kelowna, B.C., after a bizarre weekend incident which began ...

SAN ANTONIO—A San Antonio father staged the abduction of his 8-month-old son in a fake car theft plot ...

Two Good Samaritans helped stop a child abduction in the Queens borough of New York City over the ...

Two men involved in helping parents abduct their own children have been released on bail in Brisbane, Australia, ...

Mystery Woman Rings Doorbell in Video, Police Still Searching A mystery woman with what appeared to be broken ...

Two girls were found safe and a man accused of kidnapping them is in custody after an Amber ...

BEIRUT—The Islamic State group has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning ...

BAGHDAD—Two powerful Shiite militias are top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern ...

With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped ...

A Reddit thread asking users to share their creepiest experiences ever brought up numerous stories—some unusual and disturbing ...

Some background on the Islamist group that has been trying to topple Nigeria’s government for years, by Natalia ...