All Stories: hostage-taking

TREBES, France: Two people were killed when a gunman shot at police and took hostages in a supermarket in southwestern France on Friday and...

BAMAKO, MALI: At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

PARIS: At least two people were shot dead Friday during a hostage-taking drama at a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris, where at least five people were being held, official sources told AFP.