Taliban release 12 Korean hostages
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents freed 12 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after reaching a deal with Korean and Indonesian negotiators on the release of the 19 Christian volunteers.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan released on Thursday four of the remaining seven South Korean hostages they had kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, witnesses said.
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Eighteen soldiers held hostage by pro-Taleban militants in a Pakistani tribal region are released, officials say.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will on Wednesday start releasing 19 South Korean Christian volunteers kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 29 -- The Taliban on Wednesday began making good on a promise to release 19 South Koreans who have been held captive for a month and a half, freeing 12 and promising to turn over the rest in coming days.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Militants released 12 foreign hostages in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta as a prelude to peace talks with the government, a state government spokesman said.
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Nigerian militants freed 12  foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger  Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming  government of President Umaru Yar&#39;Adua.
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Taliban militants released three female South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity, the South Korean government said Wednesday.
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Taliban militants agreed Tuesday to release 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage for six weeks after Seoul reaffirmed a pledge to withdraw its troops by year's end and prevent Christian missionaries from working in Afghanistan.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 12 Taliban fighters on Tuesday, including two militant leaders involved in the kidnap of 23 South Koreans in July, a provincial police chief said.
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South Korea's presidential office says the Taleban have agreed to free 19 hostages held in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Nineteen South Koreans flew out of Afghanistan yesterday after spending nearly six weeks in Taliban captivity, as Afghanistan's main opposition political party criticized the agreement that led to their release.
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The Taliban on Monday gave 23 Korean hostages another 24 hours to live to allow the South Korean government to open direct talks with the kidnappers, a Taliban spokesman said on Monday.
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Nineteen South Koreans held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan are kept on the move by their Taliban captors, but are said to be in good health, a doctor in touch with a senior commander in the insurgent group told reporters Friday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- Negotiators in Afghanistan said Tuesday they had reached agreement on a deal that will allow 19 South Korean church volunteers to go free after six weeks in Taliban captivity, apparently ending a hostage crisis that has gripped both nations, officials said.
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Taliban militants released 12 captives in a series of handovers yesterday, part of a deal with Seoul to free all 19 South Korean hostages that one Afghan minister warned would embolden the insurgents.