U.S. Hostage Urges U.S. to End Iraq Fighting-Jazeera
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Micah Garen, an American held hostage in  Iraq, appeared in a videotape and called on the United States  to stop the bloodshed in the Iraqi city of Najaf, Al Jazeera  television said Friday.
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Iraqi-British national Margaret Hassan who is held hostage in Iraq urged Britain to pull out troops and release Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television said Wednesday.
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Militants behind attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure have asked the United States and President Bush to mediate to try to end a crisis that has seen foreign workers kidnapped and cut output of Africa's biggest producer.
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DOHA : A Polish woman held hostage by a militant group in Iraq was shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV on Saturday night pleading for the withdrawal of Polish troops from the country and the release of women prisoners to save her life.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has  urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi  women prisoners, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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The wife of an American hostage in Iraq has pleaded for his captors to open talks after Islamic militants demanding the release of female prisoners in Iraq beheaded another American captive.
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Iraqi militants who said they captured a  U.S. journalist last week have threatened to kill him if U.S.  forces do not pull out from the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera  television reported on Thursday.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday called on Iraqi insurgents to release a U.S. hostage, responding to the captive's plea for his intervention.
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British-Iraqi hostage Margaret Hassan made an emotional appeal for British forces to withdraw from Iraq, in a videotape broadcast on Arabic television channel Al Jazeera on Friday.
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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq's leader and U.S. officials crushed reports that a high-profile female Iraqi weapons scientist could be released from jail soon &#151; as demanded by the kidnappers.
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Iraqi militants who said they captured a  U.S. journalist last week have threatened to kill him within 48  hours, if U.S. forces do not pull out from the holy city of  Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
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Militants led by Washington&#39;s top foe in Iraq said they would kill an American and a Briton on Tuesday unless their demands were met, a day after they released footage showing them severing the head of another US hostage.
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CAIRO - The kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq tearfully urged British forces to withdraw from Iraq in a videotape broadcast Friday by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television news channel.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces and is considering joining the political process, an al-Sadr aide said Monday...
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The Philippines' top envoy on Sunday appealed to Iraqi militants for the release of a Filipino accountant kidnapped earlier this month in Baghdad.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  A US hostage in Iraq, Micah Garen, appeared on a videotape and called on the United States to stop the bloodshed in the Iraqi city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television said yesterday.