All Stories: Captivity

DAMASCUS: The Syrian government on Wednesday denied holding American nationals captive, including journalist Austin Tice who was abducted a decade ago in Damascus. It issued...

Adoptive parents of a teenager has pleaded guilty after they were found of holding him in captivity and starving him to death.

Shahbaz Taseer, the son of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, has said the radio had become a blessing for him during captivity.

MULTAN: Ali Haider Gillani, the freed son of a former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani, has revealed details of the raid by United States (US) and Afghan forces last week which rescued him three years after he was captured by Al-Qaeda operatives.

LAHORE: Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday called on Ali Haider Gillani, son of ex-PM Yousuf Raza Gillani, recently freed from three years of militants' captivity, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Shahbaz Taseer, who was held by the Taliban for nearly five years before being abruptly freed this month, described the moment he was reunited with his wife Thursday as he took to social media to share his dumbfounding story.

MULTAN: The kidnapped son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and PPP leader Yousaf Raza Gilani called his father on Sunday after two years in captivity and told him he was well, ARY News reported.

YOLA, NIGERIA: Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives said on Sunday after they were brought to a government refugee camp.

BEIRUT: The Nusra Front, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, killed one of the Lebanese soldiers it had been holding in captivity, Lebanese security sources and a Twitter statement said on Friday.