Nasrallah demands militant freed
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Hezbollah's leader says two Israeli soldiers will only be freed in return for a Lebanese militant jailed since 1979.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - The Palestinian family of  a Jordanian hostage threatened with death in Iraq appealed on  Sunday for his release, saying he was a father of seven who did  not collaborate with Iraq's "occupier."
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  Top aides to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on kidnappers Thursday to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of Najaf.
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An Islamist group said it had released  Lebanese hostage Mohammad Raad, whom it kidnapped in Iraq, Al  Arabiya television reported on Tuesday.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday called on Iraqi insurgents to release a U.S. hostage, responding to the captive's plea for his intervention.
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The tape called for kidnappings to try to force the release of a high-profile Muslim cleric imprisoned in the U.S.
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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his campaign to oust Lebanon's Western-backed government but promised that his powerful Shi'ite Muslim group would not spark a fresh civil war.
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An Iraqi militant group claiming to have  kidnapped two Indonesian women said it would release them if  Jakarta freed a Muslim cleric detained on suspected terror  links, Al Jazeera television reported Saturday.
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Leader Hassan Nasrallah says Hezbollah is ready for "open war" with Israel at a Beirut funeral for a senior militant.
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A radical cleric captured by security forces while fleeing in a womanâs burqa said that the nearly 1,000 followers still inside his government-besieged mosque in Pakistanâs capital should escape or surrender.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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Aides to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say militants holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq will release him soon. The aides said they have been in contact with a group calling itself the Martyrs
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Militants holding an Israeli soldier demanded Saturday the release of 1,000 prisoners and a halt to Israel&#039;s Gaza offensive, complicating efforts to resolve a crisis before it boils over into major fighting.
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Iraq&#39;s Defense Minister Tuesday issued an ultimatum to followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holding the Imam Ali Mosque -- get out or be wiped out.
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Rogue Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has called for the release of an American freelance journalist with New England roots who was seized in Nasiriyah Friday.
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The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq calls for kidnapping of Westerners, according to a web recording.
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped two Indonesian women demanded Jakarta free a Muslim cleric accused of heading an al-Qaida-linked group, the Arab news station Al-Jazeera reported Saturday. But the cleric said he wanted no such thing.