Gus Dur asked to help free two Indonesian women kidnapped in Iraq
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JAKARTA (Antara): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked former president Abdurrahman &quot;Gus Dur&quot; Wahid on Friday to help free Rosidah binti Anom and Rafikan binti Amin -- two Indonesian women who were kidnapped in Iraq.
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The Foreign Office has appealed on Al Arabiya television for any information from Iraqis on Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage with two Americans last week.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq promised Wednesday to release one of two high-profile women prisoners, but officials denied the decision was linked to demands by militants who purportedly killed two American hostages and threatened to execute a Briton with them unless all female Iraqi prisoners are let go.    Later Wednesday, authorities said a corpse was found with its decapitated head in a black plastic bag western Baghdad...
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British aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped in Iraq, pleaded to the British people for help to secure her release by asking Prime Minister Tony Blair to pull British troops out of the country, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera.
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Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker being held hostage in Iraq, was seen pleading for the release of all female prisoners in Iraq, in a new video released through al-Jazeera last night.
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A video has been broadcast of Turkish businessman Kahraman SadikoÃ°lu, who was kidnapped for ransom in Ummu Kasr in Iraq. Sadikoglu says in the video that he was in Iraq for trade and after the investigations of his kidnappers he will be set free.
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The International Transport Workers' Federation has appealed for the release of an Iranian union leader who reportedly was kidnapped earlier this week in Tehran.
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Messages follow American's beheading BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the ...
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Islamic militants in Indonesia have suffered a serious blow with the capture of the country's most-wanted man, Abu Dujana, but experts believe they are still capable of mounting attacks.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life in a video released by his captors.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...
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INDONESIAN officials today confirmed two of its women citizens were among 10 people kidnapped by an Islamist militant group in Iraq.
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The victims are an Italian - Iraqi businessman and a Turkish man. Two kidnapped Indonesian women have been released. Baghdad (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A militant group claimed Monday to have shot and killed two
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HUNDREDS of disabled Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad yesterday to demand the release of Margaret Hassan, calling her abductors âneanderthalsâ and insisting that their collapsed health system needs the British aid worker, kidnapped by insurgents last
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BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the group beheaded an American.
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JAKARTA (Antara): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered up on Tuesday yet new names of two Indonesian women that were released by Iraqi abductors on Monday.
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Officials in Jakarta confirmed two Indonesian women working for a British company in Iraq were among 10 people kidnapped by an Islamist militant group.
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A director of an international charity in Iraq has been kidnapped as she was being driven to work in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, a British-born Iraqi national, was abducted in the capital, CARE International UK said in London.