Kidnappers Release Seven Hostages in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s office confirmed Monday that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after dropping nearly all their demands for the release of prisoners and compensation for the victims of fighting.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck  drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been  freed by their captors.
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Two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for the last three weeks have been released.
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says. The Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company said the men were on their way to Kuwait.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq.
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An Iraqi group has released two Indonesian women captives who were handed over to the United Arab Emirates&#39; embassy in Baghdad, Arab television reported.
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Members of a group of tribal Iraqi leaders kidnapped in Baghdad have been freed, a spokesman says.
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Militants in the oil-rich south of Nigeria free 12 foreigners, whom they had been holding hostage.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants in Iraq freed seven foreign truck drivers Wednesday after holding them six weeks, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French reporters captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a ban on Muslim head scarves in schools.    Also Wednesday, gunmen shot at a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi as he returned from Najaf to attend the first meeting of Iraq's 100-member National Council, which is to act as a watchdog over the interim government and help shepherd the nation to elections...
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A Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan held hostage in Iraq have been released, their governments say.
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SEVEN truck drivers from Egypt, Kenya and India held hostage in Iraq since July 21 and working for a Kuwaiti firm have been released, Al-Arabiya television has reported.
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Hostage takers released a dozen foreign hostages Monday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, officials said.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck  drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt on Wednesday after holding  them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a  dozen other foreigners still in captivity.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been freed by their captors.