Gunmen Hold, Release 35 Police Recruits in Iraq
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Gunmen briefly detained 35 unarmed Iraqi police recruits in their hotel near the Jordanian border on Tuesday night, but released them after they pretended to be businessmen.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of Iraqi policemen returning from training has been kidnapped in the western part of the country, according to police.
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The bodies of 49 freshly trained Iraqi National Guard recruits, lined up and executed by insurgents, were discovered on a roadside about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Sunday.
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Two Iraqi guards abducted along with an American and Nepalese by armed gunmen from their Baghdad compound have been released, police said Tuesday.
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US and Iraqi forces secured more than three quarters of Mosul&#39;s police stations as calm prevailed following last week&#39;s flare up in violence that saw insurgents raid police buildings in the city, the US military said.
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Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad on Monday, police said.
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Iraqi police detain beggars and mentally ill people found on the streets who could be exploited by militants.
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More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in restive Anbar province &#151; a focal point of the Sunni Arab insurgency &#151; in the most successful recruiting drive by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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The Iraqi authorities suspect that a Shiite militia linked to the Iraqi police rather than Al-Qaeda mounted the abduction of five Britons in Baghdad, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.
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Police and Iraqi National Guardsmen say that they have received more tips from the public, resulting in more arrests and greater effectiveness in their efforts to weaken the violent insurgency rocking the country.
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Iraqi police found the bodies of 14 policemen on Friday, all shot in the head, hours after an al Qaeda-linked group showed pictures of 18 men it said were seized to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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Five British civilians kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a group trained, funded and armed by Iran, US commander says.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Gunmen seized control of a high school in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said, holding 30 students and teachers hostage as security forces surrounded the building.
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An armed group kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen who were returning training in Jordan, authorities said Wednesday, and a suicide car bomber rammed a U.S. convoy north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, hospital officials said.
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At least 30 Iraqi policemen are kidnapped in an armed ambush as they return home from training in Jordan, police say.
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Al-Qaida's arm in Iraq released a video Saturday showing its militants lining up five captured Iraqi security officers and executing them in the street, the latest move in a campaign to intimidate Iraqis and target those who collaborate with U.S.-led forces.
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At least 14 Iraqi police officers have gone missing and an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said had been kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.