Two Filipino women are kidnapped while traveling on a road to the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil.

Unidentified gunmen storm a Red Cross compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu and abduct a female staffer.

More than 100 schoolgirls are feared missing after Boko Haram militants attacked Dapchi village in northeast Nigeria.

The mayor of Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city, has been abducted and killed shortly after returning from a foreign trip.

The family of a former Egyptian prime minister who has reportedly been deported by the Emirates says his whereabouts are unknown.

The militant group in Afghanistan says a kidnapped American professor is in dire health condition and needs urgent medical attention.

Iraqi government forces retake more districts in Mosul’s Old City.

Deadly violence between government forces and tribal militias in DR Congo's central Kasai region has forced more than a million people from their homes over the past eight months, according to the UN.

Nigerians on Friday marked three years since the mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists.