Like Hamas, both America and Israel have “blood on their hands.” That is the view of Independent presidential candidate and prominent civil rights activist Cornel West, who on Sunday seemed to justify the terror group’s monstrous operation which saw the deaths and kidnappings of hundreds of men, women, and children, calling it a form of resistance to “oppression.”
An 18-year-old young man was kidnapped, beaten and thrown in the Seine river after being lured to an area by the brother of his girlfriend.
A group of Albanians are accused of kidnapping and torturing a man in an attempt to extract a £400,000 (~$452,000) ransom from his family overseas.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped some 140 students from the Bethel Baptist High School in central Nigeria Monday in the latest of a series of mass abductions of children in the country.
Nigerian government authorities have recently closed at least 618 schools across six northern states to protect students amid a recent string of abductions by bandits tied to the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, Nigerian newspaper This Day reported Monday.
Local vigilantes helped rescue 84 kidnapped schoolchildren in Nigeria on Sunday following a shootout between their abductors and security forces, local authorities confirmed.
Dutch police have arrested six men after a torture chamber was discovered in a series of underground shipping containers, kitted out with implements of torture including a dentist chair, handcuffs, pliers, saws, and black hoods.
ROME (AP) — Wearing a surgical mask, disposable gloves and booties to guard against Covid-19, a young Italian woman returned to her homeland Sunday after 18 months as a hostage in eastern Africa.
An armed gang of four men ambushed a safari this week and reportedly kidnapped an American tourist and her local driver in Uganda’s popular Queen Elizabeth National Park, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Islamist militants have finally freed a Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria for over three years, a Japanese government spokesperson announced on Tuesday evening.
The son of a top municipal law enforcement official in the central Mexican state of Puebla was arrested for his alleged role as the leader of a kidnapping operation.
REUTERS – Two Italian workers and a Canadian kidnapped in Libya in September have been freed and were flown to Italy early on Saturday, Italian and Libyan officials said.
Two illegal aliens from Mexico joined forces with human smugglers to kidnap and torture unsuspecting illegal immigrants being held at a stash house. Instead of charging the group with hostage taking or kidnapping charges, prosecutors charged them with human smuggling.
A botched kidnapping in the Mexican State of Tabasco left eight dead after gunmen led police in a high-speed gun battle.
On Tuesday, a Pakistani immigrant working in New Orleans as a cab driver pled guilty to counts of simple rape and second-degree kidnapping two years after he forced himself on a passed-out passenger.
Carjackings, highway robbery, kidnappings and death — those are the dangers facing travelers who take to the highways of terror through this border state.
Nearly two hundred U.S. citizens have been murdered in Mexico since 2013. Fierce gunfights, kidnappings, bus hijackings, car-jackings and extortion by Mexican cartels are all possibilities that could be faced by U.S. citizens travelling into Mexico. These have resulted in the murder of 181 Americans in the past two years.
Fourteen Mexican federales have been arrested for running a kidnapping crew that had been targeting Mexican businessmen near the Texas border.
The Mexican Army arrested the fourteen agents and rescued the businessman this week in the border city of Matamoros, according to information released to Breitbart Texas by Mexican federal investigators.
As previously reported by Breitbart Texas, police officers from the towns of Iguala and Cocula fired on and kidnapped 43 education students allegedly under orders of the now indicted mayor Jose Luis Abarca. The police officers then turned the students over to cartel members who executed them and incinerated their bodies before dumping the ashes in a nearby river.
A Democrat Texas Congressman wrote a letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Bidden asking him to focus on the worsening security situation in Mexico which “has ripped apart our way of life on the U.S. Mexico Border.”
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The ever worsening security situation in Mexico has led to a new mode of transportation for Mexican tourists that includes traveling in a convoy with police escorts at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more — all in an effort to avoid getting carjacked by drug cartels on their journey to the U.S. border.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – A series of kidnappings in the Mexican border city of Matamoros prompted the U.S. Department of State to issue a security warning to American travelers.
