Kidnapped Iranian diplomat freed
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Fereidoun Jahani is safe and is in the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, embassy officials said. He was kidnapped as he travelled from Baghdad to the Shia Muslim holy city of Karbala, in central Iraq, where he had been due to start work as the consul.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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A Slovak aid worker who was kidnapped in Ingushetia has been freed, Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan said Wednesday.
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An Iranian-American reporter who was trapped in Iran for months on suspicion of trying to stir up a revolution was allowed to leave the country Tuesday and return to the United States, her employer said.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed today, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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Poland&#39;s prime minister has announced Iraqi kidnappers have freed a 54-year-old woman they had been holding in the country since late October.
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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the premier&#39;s office said on Sunday.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iran yesterday accused the United States of responsibility for the abduction of an Iranian diplomat snatched from a Baghdad street on Sunday by men wearing Iraqi Army uniforms.
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By Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press, 9/27/2004 10:24. BAGHDAD, Iraq  A kidnapped Iranian diplomat was released Monday after nearly two months in captivity, the Iranian Embassy said.
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U.S. troops released seven Iranians early Wednesday, hours after detaining them at a central Baghdad hotel, an Iranian embassy official said.
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An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.
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An Iranian embassy official said that American troops released seven Iranians early Wednesday, hours after they were detained at a central Baghdad hotel.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in  Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the  fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton  threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 27: An Iranian diplomat, Fereidoun Jahani, taken hostage in Iraq last month, was released on Monday amid continued violence countrywide, underlining a warning by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraqâs insurgency was worsening.
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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Arab satellite television Al Arabiya said on Sunday.
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TEHRAN - The Iranian-American who was freed from detention early yesterday was released after his family paid bail and has not yet been given permission to leave the country, a judiciary official said.