Gunmen have seized 10 women and children in the latest kidnapping to rock Nigeria, police said Tuesday, as parents of dozens of children taken from a Catholic school last week pleaded for their ...

Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass ...

The mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria caught the world’s attention over a decade ago when 276 high-school students were abducted from Chibok, sparking the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social ...

Fifty of the 303 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and are now reunited with their families, officials said Sunday, as schools across Niger remain closed ...

253 children and 12 staff are still held by kidnappers, church association says Pope appeals for their immediate release Recent kidnappings prompt school closures in northern Nigeria President Tinubu ...

A Texas kidnapping victim rescued after a dramatic SWAT operation was thrown in jail hours after leaving the clutches of her alleged abductor in a stunning turn of events. Police in San Antonio hunted ...

Another group of schoolchildren has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria, in the second such incident this week in the West African nation where attacks by militants have displaced thousands of people.

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...

Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have ...

REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON HAS MORE ON THE CASE TONIGHT. DETECTIVE DAVID MAZUREK TELLS ME THE VICTIM WAS ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPED AT HER HOME IN ALIQUIPPA AT GUNPOINT, TOLD SHE WASN’T GOING TO SURVIVE, AND ...

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — Two people are behind bars in Beaver County after police say they kidnapped a woman and threatened to have her killed. It all started in Aliquippa, Beaver County on Monday afternoon ...

MAGA, Nigeria (AP) — A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as ...