World Mar 20 Kidnapped U.S. aid worker, French journalist freed in West Africa By Dalatou Mamane, Eric Tucker, Krista Larson, Associated Press
Nation Dec 17 Watch 5:21 News Wrap: FDA panel backs Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use In our news wrap Thursday, a second COVID-19 vaccine moves closer to emergency authorization, President-elect Biden rounds out his environmental team, Vladimir Putin denies ordering opposition leader's poisoning, more than 340 boys kidnapped in Nigeria are freed, the family that…
World Feb 06 Watch 2:17 Parents of U.S. hostage Austin Tice mount campaign to win his release By PBS News Hour
Politics Dec 26 Watch News Wrap: American kidnapped by al-Qaida makes video plea from Pakistan News Wrap: American kidnapped by al-Qaida makes video plea from Pakistan… By PBS News Hour
Science Jun 28 Watch DNA Testing Reunites Families Separated by War Thousands of children were kidnapped during a civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, but new DNA procedures are helping reunite parents with their now grown children.
Jan 25 Watch Who Was Behind Kidnapping, Rescue in Somalia? Members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 freed two kidnapped aid workers, including one American, early Wednesday -- whisking them away from their captors in Somalia. Jeffrey Brown discusses the kidnappers' motives and how the operation unfolded with NPR's Tom… Continue watching
Jun 01 Militants Abduct 400 in Northwest Pakistan By PBS News Hour Taliban militants abducted at least 400 students, staff and relatives from a military-run college in a northwest Pakistani tribal region on Monday. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch Massive Search Effort Underway for Two Missing U.S. Soldiers Amid the security crackdown in Baghdad, an al-Qaida linked group has claimed responsibility Monday for abducting two U.S. soldiers from a checkpoint while the U.S. military has charged three soldiers with the murder of three detainees during an operation. Continue watching
Sep 16 Contractors Kidnapped in Daytime Raid in Iraq Gunmen snatched two Americans and one Briton from their residence Thursday in a bold dawn raid, bringing to eight the number of westerners currently held hostage in Iraq. Continue reading