Abducted BBC journalist released
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Kidnapped BBC reporter Dilawar Khan Wazir is released a day after going missing in Pakistan.
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GAZA STRIP -- A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip yesterday by unknown assailants, Palestinian security officials said.
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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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An Australian journalist was taken hostage in Baghdad for 24 hours last weekend and was released unharmed, according to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Monday.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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A US journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago was released on Sunday. Micah Garen confirmed his release on Al-Jazeera television.
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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday said it has identified the kidnappers of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza by four masked gunmen, and hopes to free him soon.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, freed earlier this week in Gaza after 114 days as hostage of a radical Palestinian group, left Israel for London on Saturday, witnesses said.
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A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen was released Monday, a regional police commissioner said.
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Iraqi kidnappers have released a Bangladeshi truck driver after holding him hostage for more than a month, a foreign ministry official said on Friday.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed on Wednesday after 16 weeks held hostage by Palestinian extremists in Gaza, looking pale and drawn but delighted that his &quot;terrifying&quot; ordeal was over.
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Kidnappers have released a Turkish hostage who was under threat of beheading in Iraq after his two employers agreed to captors&#39; demands to stop working in the country, Al Arabiya television says.
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An aide to rebel Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago has been freed.
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BAGHDAD - A US journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago was released Sunday. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Micah Garen, 36, thanked representatives of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for working to secure his release.
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A British Broadcasting Corp. journalist kidnapped in Gaza is alive and well and could soon be released, a Palestinian government spokesman said.