Shiite militants say kidnappers have lifted death threat on US ...
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Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a US journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in  Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate  of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened  with beheading, remained unclear on Tuesday.
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A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe. The Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims), a breakaway Taliban faction
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Insurgents threatened to behead two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and  launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in  the northern city of Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people.
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US Marines said on Saturday they had captured two leaders of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq&#39;s restive city of Ramadi.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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DOHA, Aug 22  - US journalist Micah Garen was released by his kidnappers Sunday and was at the office of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr in Iraq&#39;s southern city of Nasiriyah, said a Sadr spokesman.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including Briton Kenneth Bigley threatened with beheading, remains unclear.
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Insurgents threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the northern
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NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that they handed over the keys to a revered Muslim shrine to Shiite religious leaders a big step toward resolving a 2-week-old standoff in the holy city of Najaf.
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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Shiite militant group has released a video of an Iraqi-American soldier who was kidnapped nearly four months ago while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad, an American television network reported Wednesday.  The U.S.
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The Iraqi authorities suspect that a Shiite militia linked to the Iraqi police rather than Al-Qaeda mounted the abduction of five Britons in Baghdad, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their  release.
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Militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have threatened to kill three Western hostages unless the United States releases female prisoners from two Iraqi jails within 48 hours.
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Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
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Iraq&#39;s government says one of two women in US custody will be freed today, but insists the move is unrelated to the demands of kidnappers who have killed two Americans and are threatening to kill a Briton.