Turk Shipping Magnate, 3 Others Kidnapped in Iraq
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Kidnappers have abducted a  Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and  demanded a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV  television channel said Saturday.
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Four foreign oil workers  were kidnapped by armed men from a bar in Nigeria's southern  oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses and police said on Monday.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen have abducted three relatives of Iraq&#39;s prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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Nigerian militants kidnap seven foreign oil workers from a ship off the coast, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers including three foreigners from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta.
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BAGHDAD -- US forces captured two senior figures in Al Qaeda's branch in Iraq, the US military said yesterday, and one of Turkey's richest businessmen was reported kidnapped, appearing in a video along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage.
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A prominent Turkish ship owner and his captain are being held hostage in Iraq, according to video footage screened today. Kahraman Sadikoglu and ship captain Ahmet Yurtdas are believed to have been kidnapped
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ANKARA, Turkey A Turkish construction company is halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of ten employees kidnapped by militants.
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US forces captured two senior figures in al-Qaida&#39;s branch in Iraq, the US military said Saturday, and one of Turkey&#39;s richest businessmen
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BAGHDAD, Nov 2  - An American, Filipino and Nepalese and at least one Iraqi working for a Saudi company were among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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Unidentified kidnappers are demanding a $25-million ransom for a Turkish shipping magnate they abducted in Iraq. That&#39;s according to a Turkish television channel, which aired video footage
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Gunmen kidnapped three British nationals in the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.
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Four Britons and three Americans among group kidnapped from pipe-laying boat off southern coast.
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BAGHDAD: A Turkish shipping magnate and three others were kidnapped as violence in Iraq yesterday claimed six more lives. A Turkish private NTV television channel said that the kidnappers have demanded a $25 million (BD9.5m) ransom.
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Two Italian women and two Iraqis, all working for a humanitarian group, were kidnapped Tuesday afternoon by gunmen who forced their way into a building in a middle-class neighborhood.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.