U.S. Hunts for 5 Britons Abducted in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, May 30 -- Scores of U.S. troops descended on the vast Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad late Tuesday and early Wednesday, residents there said, searching several houses in what appeared to be an intense hunt for a British financial consultant and four British bodyguards abducted...
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British expatriates were told to leave Iraq or seek secure accommodation following the abduction of a British engineer and his two American colleagues.
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Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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Britain will do all it can to help free five UK citizens kidnapped in Baghdad, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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Police hunted Monday for at least one more suspect believed to belong to an Al-Qaeda cell behind several failed car bombings in Britain after arresting five people, British media reported.
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Britain is considering a direct approach to Iran for help in finding five British hostages in Iraq.
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The five, who were staff and relatives at Britain's embassy in Addis Ababa, were captured in the remote north-east Afar region, near the border with Eritrea.Comment
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Five Ethiopians out of 13 believed kidnapped alongside a party of five Britons in one of Ethiopia's most hostile regions have been found, while a manhunt for the rest of the team has been intensified.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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UK officials attempt to go to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia, as others meet Ethiopia's PM.
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Six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company are the latest kidnapped, authorities say, and Muslim leaders in Britain announce plans to send negotiators to Baghdad to try to win the release of Kenneth Bigley. More than 140 foreigners have been taken in Iraq and 26 killed. Meanwhile, insurgents fire a rocket on a Baghdad street, ...
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The U.S. military believes that five Britons, a computer expert and four bodyguards, kidnapped in Baghdad in May are still alive, a top U.S. general said on Tuesday.
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The British Embassy in Baghdad has distributed 50,000 leaflets carrying a message from the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq that pleas with residents to help find the man, the Foreign Office said Friday.
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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The families of five British men taken prisoner in Iraq in May have appealed to their captors to release them.