Kidnapping

Families of Mexico's near-135,000 missing persons protest as World Cup kicks off

Hector Aguila, 59, who organizes Jalisco-based searchers' group Luz de Esperanza (Light of Hope), has been looking for his son since 2023.

A member of the Mexican navy patrols Benito Juarez International Airport after Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in Jalisco state, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 22, 2026.
An empty street in the Esinle community, where pupils and teachers were abducted in a large-scale school attack, in Oyo State, Nigeria, June 2, 2026.

Dozens kidnapped in northwest Nigeria after bandits invite them to talks

A woman rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest celebrates her freedom from Boko Haram at Malkohi camp for Internally Displaced People in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Nigerian forces rescue hundreds of abductees held by Boko Haram

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Hamas leadership calls for kidnapping of IDF soldiers following death penalty law passing - report


Stolen lives: Inside Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children

Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to Russia or occupied territories since the war began.

 Returned Ukrainian children in Truskavets

Relative of rescued Lev Tahor member discusses group's psychological abuse - interview

Oded Twik emotionally described the most meaningful moments in the process of rescuing family members from the Lev Tahor cult in Guatemala.

A Lev Tahor members demands the release of members of the community after prosecutors say Guatemalan authorities rescued several children and teenagers from the Jewish community following allegations of child abuse, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 21, 2024.

Police, soldiers among nine arrested for allegedly kidnapping, assaulting Palestinian

According to the allegations, in August, the suspects violently attacked and later abducted a Palestinian.

 Israeli soldiers stand while stationed outside a Palestinian shop in Huwara, Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 26, 2022.

Iranian-American activist Gazelle Sharmahd speaks out on her dissident father’s kidnapping

Jamshid Sharmahd’s abduction highlights Iran’s use of state-sponsored kidnappings to silence dissent.

 Activist Gazelle Sharmahd.

Chabad emissary to UAE Zvi Kogan murdered in 'antisemitic terrorist attack'

Mossad and authorities in the Gulf country had opened an investigation into Kogan's disappearance believing it may be related to “a terrorist incident.”

Chabad emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan.

Man arrested for attempted kidnapping of Jewish boy was family's neighbour

Stephan Stowe was previously arrested in 2013 for aggravated harassment as a hate crime, after harassing a Jewish man on the subway.

 Screenshot of CCTV footage posted by Shomrim CH showing attempted kidnapping, 9/11/2024

Masked man attempts to kidnap Orthodox Jewish boy in Crown Heights

The footage shows the masked man attempting to grab the child and carry him away, before the father pulls the child back and pushes the man off.

 Screenshot of CCTV footage posted by Shomrim CH showing attempted kidnapping, 9/11/2024

Shayetet 13 commandos capture senior Hezbollah official in northern Lebanon - report

Emad Fadel Amhz, a senior member of Hezbollah, was also reportedly a member of the Lebanese Navy.

 Illustrative image purporting to show Emad Fadel Amhaz

Hezbollah's media chief: 'It will not be long before we have Israeli captives'

He also said that there would be no negotiations while fighting continued and that it held Israel responsible for the wellbeing of the group's fighters who had been captured.

 Fighters of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah attend the funeral of the group's top military commander Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 22, 2024.

Starved, without air or water: Hostages were murdered just hours before rescue, families told

Families reveal hostages were starved and suffocated before being executed hours before rescue, fueling calls for an investigation.

The shaft leading to the tunnel in which the bodies of six hostages were recovered, September 4, 2024.