Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, an affiliate of the Islamic State, has released a video showing some of the schoolgirls kidnapped from the village of Chibok in April 2014. The terrorists are demanding the release of fighters imprisoned by the Nigerian government in exchange for the girls.
Mexican authorities are scrambling to rescue at between 12 and 16 victims who were taken at gunpoint from an upscale restaurant in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
British soldiers “warned not to wear their uniforms to work” after another suspected kidnapping attempt near Royal Air Force (RAF) base.
Surveillance video camera footage captured a woman fighting off a man attempting to abduct her daughter from a Dollar General grocery store in Hernando, Florida.
A fifteen year old girl became the latest victim of violence in this border region after two men allegedly kidnapped her, held her for ransom, raped her and then tried to have her moved north to be sexually trafficked.
The Times of Israel reports: Two Israeli students from the Bedouin village of Rahat in the Negev who had been studying in Armenia were kidnapped — and later released — by an unidentified group in Turkey, Israeli authorities said Saturday.
On Tuesday, Indonesia announced that ten of its citizens, sailors working aboard a coal barge, had been kidnapped, with a ransom demand made by the Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Wednesday brought reports that elite Indonesian counter-terrorist units are standing by to assist in a possible rescue operation.
A girl found with bombs strapped to her body who claimed to be one of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, two years ago was lying, law enforcement officials have confirmed.
Authorities are hunting for two women who are believed to have brutally murdered a mother of two near this Mexican border city and taken her two children. One of the murder suspects may have fled to Texas.
Seven investigators in a Missouri Crimes Against Children police unit are suspended pending an investigation into whether they failed to investigate cases where children were sexually assaulted in a timely manner.
In Tobruk, which is the current seat of the internationally recognized Libyan government, a member of parliament has been kidnapped, in the midst of a United Nations effort to negotiate a unified government.
There are still three American citizens missing in Iraq, and the most likely culprits are Iran-backed Shiite militia. They were snatched from a private residence in Baghdad by gunmen on January 16, and there has been little progress in finding them, beyond Iraqi intelligence guessing they ended up in the Shiite precincts of Sadr City, where numerous other kidnap victims have resurfaced.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has defended Iran from having any responsibility over three Americans who disappeared from Baghdad last week.
For the first time in four years, Mexico saw an 8.7 percent increase in the murder rate, according to government sources. There was also a coinciding claim of a decline in kidnapping and extortion, perhaps indicating that criminal groups are once again shifting their tactics.
The Syrian city of Deir Ezzor (also spelled “Deir al-Zor”) has been a block-to-block battleground between the Islamic State and Syrian regime forces for over a year, a key strategic crossroads between the Syrian and Iraqi wings of the “caliphate.”
Iraqi security forces and American officials are racing to find “several” Americans missing from Baghdad, according to the U.S. Embassy.
In a copycat attack reminiscent of Josef Fritzl, a Swedish doctor has been charged with kidnapping, drugging and raping a female hostage in a fortified dungeon-like bunker (pictured) for almost a week. The 30-year-old woman was reportedly snatched from her home in
Mexican authorities have found a 10-year-old Texas boy who had been kidnapped by his mother four years ago and taken to Mexico.
The Mexican government claims it has registered significant declines in kidnapping rates for 2015. Many drug war observers and Mexican citizens are very skeptical about the truth behind these government figures.
Police are now searching for Euric Cain, a black gunman who allegedly attempted to kidnap a woman in New Orleans but was stopped by a heroic medical student. Before the suspect was identified by police, media had provided little help by avoiding the description of the suspect due to politically correct fears about race.
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.
TAMPICO, Tamaulipas – El Cartel del Golfo en esta ciudad tomo venganza por un crimen que conmociono al sur de Tamaulipas y se volvió noticia mundial; el padre y hermano de un famoso director de cine fueron secuestrados y ejecutados.
TAMPICO, Tamaulipas—The Gulf Cartel in this city appears to have taken revenge for a crime that rocked the southern part of Tamaulipas and became worldwide news; the father and brother of a famed film director were kidnapped and executed. The murder took place even after the relatives had paid the kidnapping ransom. Days after the case became public, the bodies of the executed kidnappers turned up alongside with a narco-banner signed by the Gulf Cartel.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – A man who was being tortured by cartel members just south of the U.S.-Mexico border led authorities to his captors in Tamaulipas. A gun battle ensued.
Outrage continues to grow in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas following the brutal kidnapping and murder of the father and brother of acclaimed film director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde.
MCALLEN, Texas – A convicted Mexican drug cartel kidnapper and suspected assassin will spend 40 years in prison for carrying out a kidnapping in this border city under orders from his bosses in Mexico.
Kidnapping victim Denise Huskins has filed a claim against the City of Vallejo and the city’s police department for treating her March abduction and alleged sexual assault as a hoax.
Sky News reported last week that Iran has released five senior al-Qaeda operatives, including several possible successors to Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the organization, in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Yemen earlier this year.
The kidnapping and likely execution of 10 persons-two of which were cops by the Gulf Cartel at a family party in this border city has resulted in a series of betrayals and twists that illustrate the crime syndicates reach. A Mexican cop, suspected of involvement in the plot, died after being interrogated by police.
El secuestro y posible ejecución de 10 personas, dos de las cuales eran policías a manos del Cartel Del Golfo en esta ciudad fronteriza ha destapado una serie de traiciones y giros que muestran el alcanza del grupo criminal.
On Wednesday, masked gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish nationals from a sports stadium they were building in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, according to their employer, Ankara-based Turkish conglomerate Nurol Holding.
Hombres fuertemente armados del Cártel del Golfo intentaron secuestrar al ex alcalde de esta ciudad fronteriza, un caso que las autoridades han tratado de mantener en secreto, pero que se ha convertido en un tema muy debatido mientras que los ciudadanos afirman que nadie está a seguro.
Eleven kidnapping victims were rescued during a Mexican police operation aimed at capturing various gunmen with the Gulf Cartel. The raid of the cartel torture house resulted resulted in the discovery of a clandestine grave site, and the arrest of multiple hit-men.
In response to the rising number of kidnapping in the border city of Matamoros, authorities kicked off a new anti-kidnapping unit that is supposed to investigate and prosecute the crime. The unit was also created to calm the public’s anger at the continued lack of security conditions.
The coastal resort city of Acapulco has always been known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling waters. But in the last decade it has become a regional epicenter of drug war violence that Mexican authorities have been largely powerless to stop. The most recent wave of killings and kidnappings comes as a result of a turf war between multiple drug organizations that want control of the lucrative port city.
A activist executed in Mexico led the search for ten months for the 43 missing students in Mexico. Their disappearance and presumed murder has been linked to drug gangs and corrupt government officials. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have dedicated themselves to finding evidence of what happened to these students.
An would-be narco carjacking victim targeted by cartel gunmen turned the table on the criminals when he used his car to run over the leader of the group. The attempted carjacking took place at a highway in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) militiamen have kidnapped 230 Syrian civilians, including 19 children and 45 women, after invading a village in the province of Homs in central Syria. Among the hostages are 60 Christians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based NGO.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested at the Texas border a Chinese illegal alien previously convicted in the U.S. for kidnapping and deported from the United States.
The awful humiliation of Obama’s strategy in Syria continues, as five more U.S.-trained “moderate Syrian rebels” have been kidnapped by al-Qaeda’s affiliate, the Nusra Front.
