Three held over Afghan kidnapping
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Afghan police say they have arrested three men over the kidnapping of a Bangladeshi aid worker.
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An Afghan official said criminals were holding a British woman and two other kidnapped United Nations workers, not the Taliban-linked group that has threatened to kill them unless its jailed comrades are freed.
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A massive manhunt was underway for three UN foreign election workers whose daylight abduction in Kabul has sparked fears of the start of Iraq-style kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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Gunmen abducted three foreign election workers here Thursday in daylight on a busy street. It was the first such kidnapping of foreigners in Kabul, the capital
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Three foreign election workers have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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The Afghan election commission has confirmed the kidnapping of three foreign election workers in the capital of Kabul, according to CRIENGLISH.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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Three foreign election workers are abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul. A Briton is among them. They are kidnapped near an office of the joint UN-Afghan electoral body set up to oversee the recent presidential election.
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A spokesman for the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBCâs Gaza reporter was arrested, as were two others.
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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.
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The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a Briton and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
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The Taleban say they have kidnapped a British journalist and two Afghan nationals in south Afghanistan.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested three suspects in connection with a rocket attack on a helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai.
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Three U.N. workers held by militants in  Afghanistan were in their third week of captivity on Friday  after calls from both sides for the crisis to be resolved ahead  of this weekend's Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
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A UN election worker holding dual British and Irish nationality is among three foreigners seized in Afghanistan today.