At least 20 foreign hostages escaped Thursday from Islamist militants who had taken over an Algerian natural gas complex in the Sahara desert, an Alge...
Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan on Sunday (April 15). The prison in the town of Bannu was attacked by Islamist militant...
An Associated Press report claims that 20 of the hostages being held in Algeria have escaped, while other reports claim 35 hostages and 15 kidnappers ...
About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas plant deep in the Sahara. Eduardo K...
Islamic militants have told a Mauritanian news outlet that that 35 hostages were killed but seven are still alive after Algerian military helicopters ...
Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists that left at least 2...
Low-level workers at the Algerian gas plant attacked by terrorists may have helped the militants by providing basic information. WSJ's Paul Sonne has ...
A video emerges on the internet apparently showing militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar claiming responsibility for a deadly hostage crisis at Algeria's...
At least 20 foreigners - including US, French, British, Norwegian and Japanese citizens - are being held hostage by Islamist militants at a gas facili...