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The cleric Muqtada al-Sadr brokered the release of a kidnapped American journalist on Sunday, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting to fend
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CAIRO, Egypt An Egyptian company says one of its four workers who had been kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. It says it can&#39;t give the status of the others being held hostage but says it is &quot;doing its best to secure&quot; their release.
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Two Italian aid workers have been freed in Iraq after being held for three weeks by captors who threatened to kill them if the Italian government didn&#39;t give in to their demands.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 27  - An Iranian diplomat was freed Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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An Islamist group has released 18 Iraqi  soldiers it had captured and threatened to kill unless an aide  to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released, Arabic  television Al Jazeera reported Monday.
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The Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped at gunpoint on Monday was freed on Tuesday morning without a ransom being paid, the Vatican said.
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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An aide to rebel Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago has been freed.
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A Muslim cleric freed from prison in Egypt on Sunday four years after he was grabbed in a Milan street in a suspected CIA kidnapping said on Monday the ordeal had made him a wreck.
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The U.S. military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim government's efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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A Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan held hostage in Iraq have been released, their governments say.
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The release of three United Nations workers who had been held hostage for more than three weeks took place early Tuesday in what appeared to be an orchestrated handover.
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Two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for the last three weeks have been released.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that one had been released but said it could not give the status of the others.
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The U.S. military freed a top aide to  rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in a gesture  that could help the interim government's efforts to calm  rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.
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THE last two Egyptian telecom employees held hostage in Iraq had been freed, Al-Arabiya television reported today, quoting its own correspondent.