Boy held hostage in Iraq is freed
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Kidnappers in Iraq have freed a seven-year-old boy a week after seizing him while on his way to school.
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Australian journalist John Martinkus has been released unharmed after being detained by an unknown group in Iraq, SBS television says.
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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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BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid yesterday on an Al Qaeda hide-out north of Baghdad, the US military said.
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Kidnappers have released a 7-year-old Lebanese boy after a week they grabbed him as he was walking home from school in Iraq, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Friday. It was not immediately clear if a ransom was paid.
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The Iraqi Catholic archbishop of  Mosul who was kidnapped at gunpoint on Monday was freed on  Tuesday morning without a ransom being paid, the Vatican said.
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A Turkish driver taken hostage in Iraq was released by his captors on Monday, Turkey&#39;s Foreign Ministry said. The release came a day
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US journalist Micah Garen was on Sunday freed by an Iraqi group who had held him hostage in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya. &quot;I am very grateful to everyone who worked to protect me
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A German woman who was kidnapped by militants in Iraq in February is free but her son remains in captivity, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.
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A Jordanian who disappeared in Iraq two weeks ago and was believed to have been kidnapped has been freed and is in the custody of Iraqi police, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali al-Ayed told reporters yesterday.
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Two Iraqi security guards said on Tuesday they were freed by kidnappers overnight but that the gunmen were still holding an American and a Nepali also seized from a villa used by a Saudi company in Baghdad.
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A Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan held hostage in Iraq have been released, their governments say.
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Iraqi kidnappers have freed two Lebanese  men who were taken hostage west of Baghdad last month, their  company's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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A three-year-old British girl kidnapped last week in southern Nigeria has been freed, Rivers State chief of police Felix Ogbaudu and the British foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck  drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been  freed by their captors.
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The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed a day after being kidnapped by gunmen, his father says.
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A young Turkish journalist, Zeynep Tugrul, was freed last week by kidnappers in northern Iraq after four days of terror and hope.