By Adam Rasgon and Nadav Gavrielov For the second time in a week, Hamas used the handing over of hostages to the Red Cross to project an image that it is still a powerful force in charge of the ...

Armed robbers are increasingly turning to hostage-taking on ships to secure loot, and the use of guns is on the rise at crime hotspots, according to a report. Last year, 126 people were taken hostage, ...

Twelve people including 6 hostages were killed on Friday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at 2 banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.

But when the suspect held a knife to the throat of one of the hostages, a sniper fatally shot him. “When he presented deadly force like that, our SWAT sniper shot and killed the suspect,” Mr ...

But a dispute arose over the hostage release timetable. By Patrick Kingsley Aaron Boxerman Adam Rasgon and Thomas Fuller Patrick Kingsley, Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon reported from Jerusalem.

Two men allegedly restrained employees at a title loan office during an armed robbery before one of the suspects exchanged gunfire with Arlington police officers responding ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

A large gang of heavily armed bank robbers invaded ... day after a similar force struck another mid-sized city on the opposite side of the country, taking residents hostage as they looted a ...