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US and Afghan forces looking for hostages today raided houses in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials and witnesses said. About ten people were detained in the pre-dawn operation by
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Pakistani security forces have arrested more suspected militants in a series of raids following Sunday&#39;s killing of a top al-Qaida leader and the arrest of two of his aides.
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A predawn raid by police in the West Midlands city of Birmingham netted eight suspects who, according to news reports, were plotting to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and broadcast his torture and ...Comment
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Police are given more time to question some of the suspects arrested in last week's anti-terror raids.
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Police launched fresh raids Friday in connection with the failed terrorist plot in Britain, seizing computer files and other material from two hospitals in western Australia, the federal police chief said.
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Conflicting reports of ransom demands, rescues and deaths cloud the search for a group of abducted Western security contractors
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American and Iraqi troops conducted raids in Baghdadâs Sadr City a day after five British citizens were abducted.
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British officials intensified the hunt Sunday for what they called an al-Qaida-linked network behind three attempted terrorist attacks, announcing a fifth arrest and conducting pinpoint raids across a country on its highest level of alert.
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Police conducted raids across northern Italy on Monday, breaking up a leftist militant group that was allegedly planning kidnappings or kneecappings of victims to finance its plots, Milan prosecutors said. Police said they arrested 15 suspects in Milan, Turin, Padua and other northern Italian cities.
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Security forces smashed their way into houses in downtown Kabul early today, detaining several men in an apparent search for three kidnapped UN workers.
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Police investigating this week's 22  million pound ($42 million) bank robbery in Northern Ireland  have carried out raids on commercial and residential  properties.
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Pakistani police say they have arrested more than 10 suspects in a series of raids after a bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed 10 people.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops raided Baghdad neighborhoods overnight in a hunt for five Britons who were kidnapped from a government building in an audacious daylight raid by dozens of gunmen, police and residents said.
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Eight terror suspects accused of planning a kidnapping were arrested in pre-dawn raids Wednesday, police said.Comment
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By Declan Walsh in Islamabad and Duncan Campbell and Ewen MacAskill inLondon. Oct 30 (Guardian News Service):NATO troops are hunting for three United Nations workers kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction on Thursday.
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An operation is under way to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia.Comment
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Nato troops are hunting for three UN workers, one of them British-Irish, kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction yesterday.