Gunmen have taken over a luxury hotel in the capital of Mali, Bamako, on Friday morning.
Spanish journalist, Javier Espinosa, writes about his experience at the hands of the Islamic State terrorist killer, Jihadi John.
Negotiations between the government of Jordan and the Islamic State to secure the lives of a downed Jordanian fighter pilot and a Japanese hostage seem to have failed.
A Swiss man who was held captive by Islamist radicals in the Philippines has escaped from captivity after two years of being a hostage.
Luke Somers, a U.S. journalist who has been held captive by militants in Yemen since Sept. 2013, was killed in a raid as U.S. Special Forces attempted to rescue Somers and other hostages.
A two-day hostage crisis in the suburban Chicago community of Harvey, Illinois has come to an end with the arrest of two suspects.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
