A hostage crisis has ended at the Russian Embassy in Costa Rica, with police taking a suspect into custody. A hostage crisis ...

Police are negotiating with a gunman reported to be holding as many as nine hostages in the Workers' Compensation Board build...

A gunman hijacked a Canadian charter plane on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding the flight crew ...

The death of a British hostage in Nigeria's oil-producing south in a shoot out between kidnappers and troops raises the stake...

Helicopter-borne French troops swooped in on Somali pirates after they released 30 hostages from a yacht.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is ready to help engage in negotiations for the release of three American hostages held capt...

Indian news reports say five hostages have been killed in the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-orthodox Jewish group..... View...

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An overnight standoff ends after a would-be hijacker freed the last of over 180 hostages from a jet in Jamaica. The standoff ...

Two of five British hostages held in Iraq have been confirmed dead.