Hostage

Police spent six hours responding and negotiating with a suspect who had reportedly taken hostages in a doctor's office in Austin, Texas.

Police in Salem have not revealed how many people died in the incident, but said the hostage taker was among those killed.

An Asheboro, NC man has been arrested on charges of keeping a woman trapped in his house for half a decade and forcing her to have sex with him in exchange for basic needs.

"I have a 9 mm and if I want, I will put a bullet in each of your heads," the captain told his passengers.

The president reportedly approved a $2 million payment for imprisoned student Otto Warmbier's medical costs before he was returned to the U.S., where he later died.

F*** with me and I will show you how bad I am," the convict is heard shouting in the video.

The secretary of state claimed the Iran hostage crisis came to an end 40 years ago—he was two years out.

The Syrian military has reportedly freed 19 hostages abducted by ISIS earlier this year in the Druze province of Al-Sweida.

"Iran is the origin of the current threat to Americans in Iraq," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters Wednesday.

While delivering the pizza, the driver noticed the woman's black eye when she mouthed the words "help me" and "call police."

All hostages were safely freed.

Amphipods kidnap the snails and carry them on their backs.

LAPD has identified Gene Atkins, 28, as the shooter.

The Nigerian army announced on Twitter that it freed over 1,000 hostages from the ISIS ally.

Local police said the male passenger had a "history of mental illness."

Police have identified the man who opened fire in a Napa County veterans home and was founde dead after killing several hostages.

In the government shutdown blame game, politicians are accusing one another of holding CHIP hostage. Here's everything to know about that program.

A teacher has been taken hostage by a male parent who barricaded into the classroom at an elementary school in Riverside, California, on Tuesday, police and local reports said.

The Syrian military's Fifth Assault Corps, known as "ISIS Hunters," has made ISIS an offer it can't refuse.

In the video, a man identifies himself and a companion as Russian soldiers captured by ISIS during a counteroffensive against Syrian troops in Deir Ezzor.

Grassley said the Office of the Special Counsel had to sign nondiscolosure agreements.

Johan Gustafsson said that his captivity was something between a "prison sentence and Robinson Crusoe."

The Kenyan county of Lamu remains under a state of emergency because of the jihadist attacks.

Mohamed Garfanje, the leader of the Hobyo-Haradhere Piracy Network, is a mastermind of kidnap and ransom.

The jihadi group announced its biggest-ever presence in the contested territory.

Jeffery Woodke was abducted from his home in Niger in October.

The American college student was 22.

A ransomware program called WannaCry has infected at least 74,000 computers in 99 nations, threatening to erase data unless users pay $300.

Roman Catholic leader warns against a world in which "the lights of commerce cast the light of God into the shadows; when we are concerned for gifts, but cold toward those who are marginalized."

Sailors recount their ordeal after landing in Kenya following successful release negotiations.