Kidnapping News

Bogot - Two oil sector workers have been freed in northeast Colombia, a day after they were kidnapped at gunpoint, authorities said Tuesday.

New York - The UN Security Council on Monday demanded that countries not pay terrorist ransoms which the British backers of the move said have reaped Al-Qaeda and its allies more than $100 million.

Quetta - A Spanish tourist was lucky to escape with minor injuries when cycling through the highly volatile southwestern province of Baluchistan in Pakistan on Wednesday. Six police bodyguards were shot dead while protecting him and five others injured.

New York - The Syrian war has dragged on for more than two years with both sides, the rebels and the Assad regime, blaming each other. Journalists reporting from the area face an increasingly hostile environment and kidnappings by rebel forces are on the increase.

On Friday, November 15, a caravan of child traffickers en route to Gambia was intercepted by police in the small West African country of Guinea-Bissau.

Ohio corrections officials said Ariel Castro, the man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade, has committed suicide at a state prison facility.

Boise - Hannah Anderson, the 16 year-old California teen who was abducted and the subject of a massive manhunt was rescued by the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team who gunned down her abductor at a remote campsite in Idaho.

San Diego - About 8 a.m. Friday, law enforcement officials got a huge break in the abduction of 16-year-old Hannah Anderson, who an Amber Alert was issued for on Tuesday.

Ariel Castro has been “calm and cooperative” since being moved to his new temporary prison where he will stay until Ohio officials determine which prison he will be spending the rest of his life at, reported a Department of Corrections spokeswoman.

Friday morning in an Ohio courtroom, Ariel Castro accepted a plea deal in one of the most astonishing kidnapping cases in years.