The Italian news agency ANSA reported the group was abducted in northern Syria on April 5.
Earlier this year the archbishop of the ancient Chaldean church was abducted in Mosul and murdered.
The boy was abducted in a garage in the northern town of Roubaix on 15 August.
Mr Ramos was abducted in his home town of Valencia but rescued by security forces two days later.
The 2-year-old boy was abducted in October, along with his parents, who were held in a separate location.
In Haiti 150 Americans have been abducted in the last four years, says the FBI, more than anywhere else.
Japan is investigating reports that two more of its citizens have been abducted in addition to three already held.
She is the American journalist who was abducted in Iraq back in January.
So it was in the case of Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter was abducted in Spain in 2006.
Dugard was 11 years old when she was abducted in 1991 from a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California.
He was abducted in Quetta, in Pakistan, on 5 January last year and found dead on a roadside months later.
Many of them had been abducted in rebel ambushes and forced to work and fight for the movement ever since.
Colonel William Higgins was abducted in 1988 by a Hezbollah linked group known to be under the direct command of Mugniyah.
Mr Razvozzhayev said he was abducted in Ukraine, smuggled into Russia and forced into signing a confession, which he later disavowed.
Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in Iraq by militants who are demanding the release of prisoners.
Among those snatched were two Orthodox bishops who were abducted in April.
Two men were abducted in Mali itself by AQIM in November 2011.
The Chinese demand for females is so great that they are being abducted in North Korea, Burma and Vietnam and transported to China.
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.
Garecht and Dugard were of similar age and appearance, both were abducted in daylight, and a sketch of a suspect resembled Garrido, Orrey said.
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There has been more violence between Palestinian factions in the West Bank, with police stations torched in Jenin and foreigners briefly abducted in Nablus.
Twenty-nine Chinese workers who had been abducted in Sudan were freed.
He was abducted in Tripoli in April by a militia from al-Zawiya that blamed him for the death of a relative due to alleged medical neglect.
Algerian security officials say one person was killed and others abducted in an attack on a gas facility at In Amenas in the east of the country.
This week, the body of an MDC driver abducted in Harare last month was finally found, burned and decomposing on a farm about 30km outside the capital.
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After Choudhury was abducted in 2008, Benkin quickly sprung into action, notifying the Bangladeshi embassy that he was going to make numerous members of Congress aware of Choudhury's abduction.
Chris Orrey said there are similarities between Garecht's disappearance and Dugard's -- similar age and appearance, both were abducted in daylight, and a sketch of a suspect resembles Garrido, she said.
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The case surrounds claims by a German citizen, Khaled al-Masri, who claims to have been abducted in Macedonia in late 2003, then flown to Afghanistan where he was detained for five months.
In July two Americans, Javier Francisco and Pedro Vargas, were abducted in Austin, Tex. and moved to Dallas by men who authorities say were affiliated with the Zetas, the muscle for Mexico's Gulf Cartel.
Mr Keith said that a group of westerners including 12 Britons, two Americans and two Australians were abducted in Yemen in 1998, partly in order to gain the release of Abu Hamza's stepson Mohsen Ghailan and five others.
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