Taliban group claims hostages and vows: âWe will chop them up ...
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PARTIES were cancelled and the restaurants were deserted in Kabul this weekend. The Delhi Durbar, usually heaving on a Friday night with aid workers, United Nations staff, diplomats, and inter national consultants
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A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe. The Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims), a breakaway Taliban faction
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Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A purported Taliban spokesman said yesterday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a statement disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement threatened to kill two German hostages if its demands were not met by 07:30 GMT on Saturday, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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Afghan militants repeated a threat to  kill three U.N. hostages and rejected government talk of a  ransom offer on Monday, saying they were sticking to their  demand for the release of Taliban prisoners.
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A Taliban spokesman said Saturday the militant group had killed a German hostage and threatened to kill a second unless the governments of Afghanistan or Germany entered negotiations.
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Three UN workers, including a Briton, remain hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid, the third anniversary of the Taliban&#39;s ousting from the Afghan capital.
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A Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill three U.N. hostages again extended a deadline on its demands after the government said it would respond to them on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said.
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The Taliban threatened to kill 23 South Korean hostages if Afghan troops try to free them by force, as negotiations were under way to secure the release of the captives.
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Efforts to free three foreign hostages threatened with death by a Taliban splinter group have reached a "sensitive" stage, the U.S. military said Saturday in urging the kidnappers not to harm them.
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Afghan militants agreed to negotiate the release of three UN workers taken hostage last week, but warned they were ready to kill them if any rescue attempt was made.
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Militants holding a Briton and two other foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are released from US
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from  the government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon and said  it would kill one of the captives if they were not met.
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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KABUL  - Militants claiming to hold three UN hostages in Afghanistan said they were being kept in different mountainous locations, and repeated threats to kill them if a rescue attempt was made.
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Militants claiming to hold three UN hostages said Thursday that talks on their demands, including the release of Taliban prisoners, had broken down, and they would decide Friday whether to kill the trio.