Elizabeth Smart follows the abduction of a 14-year-old girl who was taken by knifepoint from her home and held captive for ...

Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction. The 130 children and teachers were released Sunday and returned home on Wednesday ...

Nigerian officials announced Monday that the remaining 130 students and staff abducted from a Catholic school in the country ...

A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with ...

Deptford police arrested the 32-year-old after he allegedly forced the victim into his Mercedes sedan and later bit an ...

The gang that abducted a group of young women in Nigeria's northeast state of Borno a week ago released the remaining 12 late Saturday, a local official told AFP. Their release comes as the country ...

More than 300 children and a dozen teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Saturday. Armed men reportedly stormed the ...

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 ...

A woman who was kidnapped, drugged and being trafficked stabbed her captor and fled on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Wednesday, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by police. Police ...

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 ...