French parish priest kidnapped in north Cameroon
By ELAINE GANLEY RECROPPED VERSION OF REB103 – This July 2011handout photo provided by the Sceaux city hall, north of Paris, shows French kidnapped priest Georges Vandenbeusch. A French priest…
Hostage situations
Journalists in Syria face growing risk of kidnap
By ZEINA KARAM FILE – In this Feb. 24, 2012, file photo,Turkish journalists holding photographs of their colleagues who lost their lives in Syria recently, from left, Anthony Shadid, Remi…
A look at some journalists missing in Syria
FILE – In this November 2012, file photo, posted on the website freejamesfoley.org, shows missing journalist James Foley while covering the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. American freelance journalist Foley…
2 Germans briefly kidnapped in Lebanon, released
By DIAA HADIDBEIRUT (AP) — Two German nationals who were briefly kidnapped in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley were released early Saturday, but a Lebanese soldier and a gunman died in…
FREED FRENCH HOSTAGES ARRIVE HOME AFTER 3 YEARS
By SARAH DiLORENZO Released French hostage Daniel Larribe, right, is surrounded by his wife and two daughters as French President, Francois Hollande, left, and defense minister, Jean-Luc Le Drian, second…
ARAB LEAGUE: SYRIA CONFERENCE SET FOR NOV. 23-24
By DIAA HADID ADDS NAME – Abbas Hammoud, one of the nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped by a rebel faction in northern Syria in May 2012, is embraced…
LIBYA PREMIER BRIEFLY ABDUCTED IN SIGN OF CHAOS
By ESAM MOHAMMED and MAGGIE MICHAEL Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan, left, gives a press conference after being rescued from gunmen who snatched him from his hotel early Thursday and…
FRANCE IDENTIFIES 2 MORE REPORTERS HELD IN SYRIA
By GREG KELLER This undated photo provided by photographer Benoit Schaeffer shows French photo-reporter Nicolas Henin in Mogadishu, Somalia. France has revealed Wednesday, Oct.9, 2013 the existence of two more…