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Unidentified gunmen stormed the University of Abuja in Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday morning and abducted six people, including an economics professor and two of his children, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported. An unspecified number of gunmen “invaded the senior

The criminal gang that abducted a group of 17 North American Christian missionaries in Haiti this weekend has demanded $1 million each for their release.

A Colombian nun kidnapped and held hostage by a Mali affiliate of Al-Qaeda in 2017 was recently freed, the office of the Malian presidency announced Sunday.

Nigerian security forces said Thursday they had rescued 187 people recently abducted by armed gangs in the northwestern state of Zamfara, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported Friday.

Authorities arrested two Missouri Men after they allegedly kidnapped and kept a missing woman locked in a cage partially naked.

An illegal alien living in the sanctuary state of New York was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to kidnapping his ex-girlfriend before tying her up, stuffing her body in a suitcase, and leaving her to suffocate. 

Police in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state on Thursday confirmed that at least 68 children remain missing from a school in Zamfara after unknown assailants assaulted the school and abducted them.

Police on Friday arrested a suspect accused in the attempted kidnapping of a five-year-old who was walking alongside his family in Queens.

A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted and held against her will for three days by a man she met on the Tinder app was rescued when a good Samaritan heard her cries for help in Oakland, California.

A New Jersey woman’s body was found in Tennessee on Saturday after she and her toddler son were reportedly abducted by the child’s father, according to authorities.

The Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky released bodycam footage of two police officers rescuing a little girl from her alleged kidnapper.

Gunmen believed to be militants of the Boko Haram terror group have abducted a Catholic Priest in northeast Nigeria, SaharaReporters revealed Monday.

A spokesman for the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported this week that hundreds of children have been abducted by Islamic terrorists in Mozambique in recent months, with the boys being forced into becoming soldiers and the girls raped and taken as child brides.

The “mass kidnapping” of students from public schools in Nigeria is “becoming a norm” in the country, the Nigerian online newspaper Premium Times reported on Tuesday.

Four men aged 19 to 21 allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 17-year-old boy because he reported drug dealers in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis to the police.

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Catholic religious sister Sunday morning in Imo State, southern Nigeria.

A German 19-year-old woman reportedly escaped an apartment in Rome where she had been forcibly confined and sexually abused.

Unidentified terrorists abducted “about 200” children from an Islamic studies school in northern Nigeria on Sunday, Sky News reported.

The Texas teen accused of killing four-year-old Cash Gernon is facing two more charges, one involving a two-year-old girl in February, CBS 11 reported Thursday.

An 11-year-old Florida girl was the target of an attempted kidnapping caught on video Tuesday, and the suspect is now in custody.

A Florida gas station clerk rescued a kidnapped woman after she escaped from the trunk of a car in the gas station’s parking lot.

Police in Savannah, Georgia, have identified a suspect whom they say kidnapped two babies during a shooting, authorities said.

HOUSTON, Texas — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas filed criminal charges against five “non-citizens of the United States” for their alleged roles in a human smuggling stash house operation. The alleged smugglers reportedly extorted the families of migrants being held in a house in southwest Houston.

A California mother at the center of a kidnapping allegation was charged recently with giving false information to law enforcement, according to Sonoma County prosecutors.

The president of the Haitian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Launay Saturné, expressed his anger and frustration over Sunday’s kidnapping of ten people, including five priests, insisting that the crisis has become “chronic.”

Suspected members of an armed gang called 400 Mawozo abducted ten people in Haiti on Sunday: two religious sisters, five priests, and three family members of one of the priests.

Authorities say Justin Arthur-Ray Davis stalked, then attempted to kidnap a former co-worker and her husband on Good Friday.

A Michigan County judge dismissed terrorism charges on Sunday for three suspects in the alleged kidnapping plot of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a Catholic priest in Nigeria’s Delta State this week, the Premium Times reported Thursday.

A St. Louis man is accused of killing his estranged wife and two children before abducting their one-year-old, leaving the infant with family, and taking his own life.

A Florida man found guilty of severing his wife’s lover’s penis after tying him up received a 20-year prison sentence.

An increasing number of states in northern Nigeria are closing their schools to protect their students from a rise in “abductions and banditry in the last two months,” the Nigerian newspaper This Day reported on Tuesday.

A previously deported illegal alien has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and threatening to murder her in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped from their boarding school late last week in northwest Nigeria have finally been freed according to reports Tuesday.

Kidnappers grabbed a teenager headed for the Texas border with the goal of joining his father in California. The Mexican teen became the latest victim of a new trend developing in Mexico where cartel smugglers have been kidnapping migrants to extort their families.

Nigerian officials have denied widespread reports this weekend that the 317 schoolgirls abducted in the northwest of the country had been set free by their captors and were returning home.