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The kidnap capital of Syria
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
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Cleveland bus driver Ariel Castro is sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole plus 1,000 years after holding three women captive for 11 years in the US.
Latin American leaders slam European governments for diverting Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane on rumours it was carrying wanted former US spy Edward Snowden.
A British oil worker kidnapped in Indonesia is released and reunites with family after two day ordeal.
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of kidnap, as they continue to search for 17-year-old Georgia Williams, who went missing on Sunday.
Three US women abducted 10 years ago and held captive in a house in Ohio were restrained with chains and ropes, a police chief says.
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
As seven French tourists are kidnapped in Cameroon, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks if groups linked to al-Qaeda are implementing a widening war against the west.
The UK foreign office investigates reports that a British citizen is one of seven people to have been kidnapped by gunmen in rural northern Nigeria.
Former hostage Terry Waite returns to Lebanon to meet Hezbollah, the organisation believed to be responsible for kidnapping and torturing him when he was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envoy.
Kathryn Sara Cox, 23, and an Australian travel companion are rescued by Ecuador’s military after being abducted while canoeing near Colombia, Ecuadorian officials say.
Senior Taliban commanders have vowed to kidnap Prince Harry at any cost – or kill him.
The Foreign Secretary and the Red Cross have condemned the “barbaric” beheading of a kidnapped British humanitarian worker in Pakistan.
Judith Tebbutt describes her time as a captive after she is released by kidnappers who snatched her and killed her husband from a Kenyan island beach hut seven months ago.
A man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the kidnap of a 10-year-old boy who disappeared on a trip to local shops in the West Midlands, as Darshna Soni reports.
Police investigating after a 10-year-old boy went missing on his way to local shops have charged a man with kidnap and sexual assault.