Hostage killed in Pakistan rescue
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One Chinese hostage held by Islamic militants dies and one is freed in a rescue mission by Pakistan's army.
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A group linked to al-Qaida and led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday that it had killed the second of two American hostages that it kidnapped last week.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al Qaeda operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Taliban guerrillas said   on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after   the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an   ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley is killed by his kidnappers in Iraq, his family confirms.
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POLICE killed a suspected top al-Qaeda operative yesterday in a four-hour gun battle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men.
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Militants have killed the director of CARE International in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, whom they took hostage in Baghdad on October 19.
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Britain was urgently investigating unconfirmed reports that Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad in mid-September, has been killed by his captors.
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Kenneth Bigley, the Briton held hostage in Iraq by the Tawhid Wal Jihad group, has been killed, according to an Islamic Web site. The UK foreign ministry said it doubts the authenticity of the report.
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KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said.    Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen...
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Afghan forces said Tuesday that they killed a Taliban commander behind the kidnapping of South Korean church workers, less than a week after the hostages were let go under a deal seen as a propaganda coup for the hard-line Islamic militia.
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The British engineer kidnapped three weeks ago in Iraq, Kenneth Bigley, has been killed by his captors. Mr. Bigley&#39;s family Friday confirmed reports that the 62-year-old hostage was murdered by the Muslim extremist group that was holding him.
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One of the Chinese engineers held hostage by militants in a Pakistani tribal region was killed and another was freed with injuries Thursday, Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy sources as saying.
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Pakistani police Wednesday shot dead a  suspected Islamic militant wanted in connection with the 2002  abduction and killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, police  said.
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Pakistani paramilitary forces killed one of the most wanted militants in the country Sunday, a government official said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was killed in an early morning raid
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British-Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped by militants in Iraq last month, has most probably been killed by her captors, her family said in a statement.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 14 -- A Chinese engineer was killed and a colleague was rescued Thursday when Pakistani commandos stormed a mud-walled compound in a remote tribal region near Afghanistan, killing five Muslim militants who had held the men hostage, authorities said.