Kidnappings Dog Kabul 3 Years After Taliban Defeat
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Three UN workers remained hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid which began on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Taliban&#39;s flight from the Afghan capital.
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Three U.N. workers remained hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid which began on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Taliban's flight from the Afghan capital.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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Security forces smashed their way into houses in downtown Kabul early today, detaining several men in an apparent search for three kidnapped UN workers.
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Three foreign election workers have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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U.S.-led troops searching for three U.N.  hostages blasted their way into compounds in Kabul on Monday  and detained 12 people while militants claiming to hold the  U.N. workers warned the government against any tricks.
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American and Afghan forces searching for three kidnapped UN workers smashed their way into a number of Kabul houses today. About 10 people were detained in the pre-dawn operation, but there was no indication the three foreigners had been found.
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Three foreign election workers were  kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday,  government officials said.
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A Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill three foreign U.N. workers abducted in Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago appeared to narrow its demands for their release Tuesday.
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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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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 U.N. workers abducted almost three  weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably being held by criminals  and not by a Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill  them, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Three U.N. workers kidnapped in Afghanistan have been released unharmed after more than three weeks in captivity, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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A Pakistani Taliban leader blew himself up to avoid arrest by government forces near the Afghan border on Tuesday, three years after his release from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, officials said.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three years after the hardline Taliban militia were swept from power in Afghanistan, their
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KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered on Wednesday the release of more than 350 Taliban prisoners who were captured when the Islamic regime was toppled nearly three years ago, officials and report said.