US woman seized in Afghanistan
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An American woman working for an aid agency is kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, along with her driver.
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Militants piled more pressure on the United States&#39; military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan forces searched on Sunday for a U.S. aid worker kidnapped by gunmen from the southern city of Kandahar.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home Thursday -- a bold abduction that underscores the increasing danger for foreigners in the
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The planned release of a US citizen captured in Afghanistan as a suspected enemy combatant has been delayed, a State Department official said Thursday, because of what the US official described as a snag in negotiations with the Saudi government.
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The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said.
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US and Afghan soldiers have raided houses in downtown Kabul early Monday in an operation aimed at releasing three foreign UN hostages, who were abducted last month.
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US and Afghan forces raid houses in Kabul as part of a hunt for three UN workers kidnapped last month.
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A US citizen is among four people reported to have been kidnapped at gunpoint from their office in Baghdad. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades,&quot; a police source told the Reuters agency.
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A CANADIAN woman who had been kidnapped in Iraq was freed by a US National Guard unit late yesterday after 16 days in captivity, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told CTV television today.
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An American woman with ties to the U.S. Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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A Northern Ireland woman held hostage in Afghanistan has telephoned her husband, the BBC understands.
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A Saudi-American citizen captured in  Afghanistan and held in U.S. military jail without charges for  nearly three years was flown home to Saudi Arabia on Monday.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three people and seized a car believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three foreigners, government and security sources say, but there was no word on the fate of the hostages.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election have been kidnapped by armed men in Kabul, triggering fears that militants
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Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through volatile southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.