Three Foreign Poll Workers Snatched in Afghanistan
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's presidential election were kidnapped by a gang of  armed men in the capital on Thursday, prompting a huge manhunt  by Afghan authorities and international peacekeepers.
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Armed men wearing military-style jackets abducted three foreign United Nations election workers in broad daylight in Kabul as vote-counting ended in Afghanistan's landmark election.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by  armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering fears that militants  were copying tactics used by insurgents in Iraq.
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THE United Nations said today it was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, abducted at gunpoint in Kabul a week ago by militants who have threatened to kill them.
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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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Gunmen have seized three foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly southern oil region, police said Monday.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped three  foreign workers from an offshore oilfield in Nigeria which was  preparing to restart after being closed for 20 months due to an  earlier attack, security sources said on Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Three men have been arrested  for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by firing a  rocket at his helicopter during his first election campaign  trip outside the capital, officials said on Friday.
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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The Taleban say they have kidnapped an Italian journalist and two Afghan nationals in south Afghanistan.
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A UN election worker with dual British and Irish nationality was among three foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan today. The three were seized at gunpoint in the capital Kabul this morning sparking fears of Iraq-style atrocities.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said.
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The third German in a week - a journalist - is kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, local officials say.
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Afghan authorities arrest three people after an attempt to shoot down President Karzai's helicopter on Thursday.
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The Taliban released three Afghan aid workers Sunday who were kidnapped with two French colleagues nearly two months ago, as the militant group announced a new operation targeting foreign and government forces.
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KABUL -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan are in the hands of criminals, not Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them, an Afghan official said Wednesday.
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Unknown armed men in military uniform kidnapped three staff of the United Nations in the Afghan capital city at broad daylight Thursday, Afghan officials confirmed.