Three students kidnapped in Nigeria were shot dead, reported AFP on Friday.
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At least six Afghan civilians were shot dead by armed men along a highway after militants intercepted three vehicles in the country's northern province of Kunduz on Tuesday, a local police said.
A total of 22 abducted Syrian Assyrians were released by the Islamic State (IS) militants, who kidnapped them along with tens of Assyrians last February, Assyrian activists said Tuesday.
Three Spanish journalists are missing, who were feared to have been kidnapped, in or around the Syrian City of Aleppo, according to reports in the Spanish press.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group released 25 Kurdish students it had snatched in Syria's northern province of Aleppo last May, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
French foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday that a French priest was kidnapped between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Cameroon.
French President Francois Hollande on Sunday said he had "proof of life" of the two journalists kidnapped in Syria three months ago.
Lebanon on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against three detainees and 10 family members of the 11 pilgrims abducted in Syria, on charges of "forming an armed gang and abducting the two Turkish pilots," the state-run National News Agency quoted a judiciary officer as saying.