Envoys in Iraq on mission to save British hostage
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Two members of the Muslim Council of Britain are in Iraq planning to meet Muslim leaders in Baghdad in an attempt to seek the release of the British hostage Ken Bigley.
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Militants beheaded a British hostage  near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free  Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played  on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...
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Iraqis have distributed 50,000 pamphlets in Baghdad, pleading for the life of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, whose two United States colleagues have been beheaded by his captors, a British source said last night.
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Efforts to help save the life of Kenneth Bigley held captive in Iraq, intensified when Irish politicians made an appeal to Bigley&#39;s captors.
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Efforts to secure the release of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley are being stepped up as a delegation from the Muslim Council of Britain&#39; heads to Baghdad for talks.
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Efforts to rescue a Japanese hostage in Iraq continued Wednesday with a call from Japan&#39;s foreign minister on the abductors to free the young man while the British hostage in
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Egypt is making intensive contacts with its mission in Baghdad and the Iraqi authorities to secure the release of six nationals taken hostages in Iraq, a senior diplomat of the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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Italy is sending an envoy to the Middle East to work for the release of two women aid workers seized in Iraq.
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A delegation from the Muslim Council of Britain has travelled to Baghdad to make a plea for the release of British captive Ken Bigley.
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Britain's leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by Muslim extremists eight days ago.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A British hostage pleaded for his government to save his life in a new video aired Wednesday on Arab television after the release of two Italian women and 10 other hostages. In Baghdad, U.S...
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.
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US teams tried to rescue Briton Ken Bigley and two Americans from their Iraq kidnappers, sources say.
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The family of a British hostage captured in Iraq has appealed to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to intervene to try to save his life.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free a Briton and two US citizens kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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Iraq is doing all it can to secure the  release of a British and two U.S. hostages but will not give in  to demands or negotiate with terrorists, Foreign Minister  Hoshiyar Zebari said on Sunday.