South Koreans leave Afghanistan after hostage ordeal
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Nineteen newly-freed South Korean hostages headed home on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama in Afghanistan following a deal with Taliban insurgents critics fear could spur more abductions.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-- Afghan security forces surrounded the location where Taliban fighters are suspected to be holding 23 South Korean hostages yesterday and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- Negotiators in Afghanistan said Tuesday they had reached agreement on a deal that will allow 19 South Korean church volunteers to go free after six weeks in Taliban captivity, apparently ending a hostage crisis that has gripped both nations, officials said.
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Taliban insurgents will release 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have been holding for nearly six weeks in Afghanistan, South Korea's presidential Blue House said on Tuesday.
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JANDA, Afghanistan - Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages yesterday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a "great victory for our holy warriors."
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban guerrillas freed four more South Korean hostages on Wednesday in Afghanistan, taking to 12 the number of the captives they have released as part of a deal with Seoul, witnesses said.
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A group of South Koreans held hostage in Afghanistan attend the funeral of their leader killed by the Taleban.
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Two UN workers who spent nearly a month in the hands of Afghan kidnappers left Kabul on Sunday as relatives and friends awaited their arrivals in Northern Ireland and Kosovo.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 -- Afghan security forces on Sunday surrounded the suspected location where Taliban fighters are holding 23 South Korean hostages and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, Afghan officials said.
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A ship carrying the first energy aid for North Korea under a key disarmament deal leaves South Korea.
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Nineteen South Korean Christian  volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six  weeks returned home on Sunday, thanking their government for  winning their release.
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Taliban agree to free 19 South Koreans kidnapped in central Afghanistan more than a month ago.
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Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue 23 South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday.
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SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIANS: 23 South Korean Christian aid workers are taken hostage while traveling by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Two of the hostages were shot and two women were freed. The Taliban agree to free the remaining 19 in exchange for a promise from South Korea to end missionary work in Afghanistan and withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year, as previously planned.
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SEOUL - Looking exhausted and apologizing for the trouble they have caused their nation, the 19 South Koreans who were held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan arrived home early this morning, as questions continued about whether their freedom was bought.
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A final batch of prisoners who fought with the Taleban head home to Pakistan after being released in Kabul.