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Now playing Next Syria Syria: hundreds missing after strategic town falls to militants Militants from the self-titled group Islamic State have taken control of a strategic town in central Syria. Al-Qaryatain lies south-east of Homs. It 07/08/2015
Now playing Next Syria Syria: hundreds disappear after militants take strategic town It is claimed hundreds of people have disappeared from a strategically-located town in central Syria after it was seized by militants. The UK-based 07/08/2015
Now playing Next My Europe Series Is Europe doing enough for missing children? Twenty years after the Marc Dutroux child abductions and murders, are police and civic groups working closely enough, across EU countries, to keep children safe? 30/07/2015
Now playing Next Syria Spain warns discretion needed as journalists go missing in Syria Spanish authorities call for discretion in the case of three journalists missing in Syria since mid-July. 22/07/2015
Now playing Next Libya Abducted Tunisian consulate staff in Libya are well Ten kidnapped staff from the Tunisian embassy in Libya’s capital Tripoli are said to be in a good condition. The Interior Minister of Libya’s 14/06/2015
Now playing Next Libya Tunisian embassy staff kidnapped in Tripoli In the Libyan capital Tripoli 10 staff of the Tunisian embassy have been kidnapped after an armed group stormed the building according to the 12/06/2015
Now playing Next Nigeria One year on: Nigeria remembers schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram One year on: Nigeria marches to remember the girls abducted by Boko Haram, as the president-elect vows to increase efforts to find them. 14/04/2015
Now playing Next Nigeria Prayers for the abducted Chibok school girls - still missing after one year Campaigners calling for the rescue of over 200 girls abducted in Chibok, Nigeria, have held a prayer session in the capital Abuja to mark the one 13/04/2015
Now playing Next Nigeria Nigeria: Hundreds of women and children kidnapped, locals say Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria have kidnapped more than 400 young women and children from Damasak, according to residents of the town 25/03/2015
Now playing Next USA Screams from baby boy's siblings foil attempted abduction A baby boy who was seen on video being abducted by a man in a park in the US state of Washington was saved thanks to his two young siblings screaming 14/03/2015
Now playing Next Syria Revised reports suggest ISIL has abducted over 200 Assyrian Christians in Syria In Syria, fresh reports revise the number of Assyrian Christians believed to have been abducted by ISIL from 90 to over 200. 26/02/2015
Now playing Next Yemen French government demand "speedy release" of woman kidnapped in Yemen Police have stepped up their search for the French woman and her driver who were snatched while driving through Sanaa in Yemen on Tuesday. French 25/02/2015
Now playing Next Syria 'ISIL abducts' at least 90 Christians in Syria ISIL militants abduct at least 90 Assyrian Christians in dawn raids across north-eastern Syria, activists claim 24/02/2015
Now playing Next South Sudan Gunmen kidnap at least 89 boys in South Sudan Gunmen in South Sudan have abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in Upper Nile State. According to the UN they were taken 21/02/2015
Now playing Next Cameroon Many women and children among dozens of people kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in Cameroon Officials in Cameroon say up to 80 people, mostly women and children, have been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram islamist militants from 19/01/2015
Now playing Next Syria Italian aid workers held hostage in Syria are freed Italy’s government has announced the release of two young aid workers taken hostage in northern Syria last summer. In a video released two weeks ago 15/01/2015
Now playing Next Nigeria Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnap 40 men in north-east Nigeria Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped at least 40 men and boys in a remote village in north-east Nigeria. People who fled from Malari in 03/01/2015
Now playing Next Nigeria Boko Haram suspected of another mass kidnapping in Nigeria Reports in Nigeria say militants from the Boko Haram group are suspected of carrying out another mass kidnapping of women and children in the 18/12/2014