Militants Behead 3 Kurd Hostages in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants beheaded three hostages said to be Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site Sunday and denouncing Kurdish political parties for cooperating with Americans in Iraq.    In a separate incident, a group claimed to have kidnapped 25 members of the Iraqi National Guard, and a report on the Arabic station Al-Jazeera said the soldiers were threatened with death unless a detained Shiite leader is freed within 48 hours...
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A videotape posted by on a website showed the beheading of three hostages said to be members of an Iraqi Kurdish party, slain for co-operating with American forces in Iraq, according to their captors.
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Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s family from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said Wednesday, and militants said they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.
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An Islamic Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages - one a Turkish contractor and the other an Iraqi Kurdish translator wearing a badge of the Titan security company.
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A militant Iraqi group said it had beheaded a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who it described as a "spy" working as a translator for the U.S. army, according to an Internet statement.
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.
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Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced Sunday, hours after Iraq&#39;s prime minister said January elections would be held on schedule.
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Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish militiamen as they traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three and wounding nine, hospital sources in the nearby town of Arbil said.
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An Iraqi Islamist group says it has killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which cooperates with the Iraqi government, and has posted a video tape on its website of the apparent beheadings.
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An Iraqi group said it killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which cooperates with the Iraqi government, and posted a video tape on its web site of the apparent beheadings.
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In the single largest set of executions of foreign captives by Iraqi insurgents, an Islamic militant group announced on Tuesday that it had killed 12 Nepalese hostages.
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A militant group has killed three Turks it was holding hostage in Iraq, Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has reported. The station said it had received a video from a group purportedly linked to al-Qaeda, showing the executions.
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An Islamist Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages &#151; one a Kurdish translator and the other a Turkish contractor wearing a badge of the Titan security company.
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An Iraqi Islamic group says it has killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which cooperates with the Iraqi Government.
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Islamist militants, calling themselves the Army of Ansar al-Sunna, said Saturday they captured and beheaded Baghdad contractor Barie Dawood Ibrahim.
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Insurgents in Iraq have threatened to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two US soldiers near Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- A gruesome video posted on a website purportedly showed militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.