(CNN)-- Two pirates in Somalia vowed revenge Monday, after the U.S. military killed three pirates and freed a U.S. ship captain who had been held hostage for several days. The pirates told a ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Richard Phillips, the cargo-ship captain whose capture by pirates triggered a dramatic U.S. Navy rescue off the coast of Africa, called on the federal government Thursday to ...

Earlier today, Somali pirates murdered four US citizens who were being held hostage as negotiations for their release were underway. Vice Admiral Mark Fox, the commander of Central Command’s naval ...

Separatist militants killed 21 hostages and four security forces personnel as the hijacking of a passenger train in south-west Pakistan ended in bloodshed. All 33 hijackers were also killed in the ...

MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. Pirates have taken seven Russian sailors and one Ukrainian hostage in the territorial waters of Nigeria, the Russian embassy said on Wednesday. "The BBC Caribbean ship ...

Separatist militants who hijacked a train in Pakistan have said they will blow it up and execute all remaining 182 hostages in their custody if the authorities do not meet their demands.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani forces freed the remaining passengers from a train that was hijacked by separatist militants in explosive-filled vests who took hundreds of hostages and killed 21 ...

Taiwanese boat engineer, Shen Jui-chang was freed last month after spending nearly five years as a hostage. When the fishing boat he was working on was captured by Somali pirates the whole crew ...

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has threatened to execute ten Pakistani hostages in retaliation for drone strikes and artillery shelling by Pakistani forces and also issued a 48-hour ultimatum ...