Taliban set new hostage deadline
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Abductors of 23 South Korean aid workers extend ultimatum to Tuesday evening.
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KABUL, Nov 16: The latest deadline set by Muslim militants in Afghanistan who threatened to kill three UN hostages passed with no word on their fate on Tuesday, but the government said it was hopeful they would be released.
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KABUL, NOVEMBER 7: Afghan militants who threatened to kill three kidnapped UN workers have demanded the release of 26 Taliban prisoners and agreed to give the government until Tuesday to do so, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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The Taliban said Tuesday that 19 South Korean hostages held by the hardline militia for nearly six weeks would be freed &quot;soon&quot; after a successful round of negotiations.
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Islamabad, Oct 11. (PTI):The suspected pro-Taliban abductors of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan&#39;s tribal south Waziristan agency bordering Afghanistan today extended the deadline by four hours to kill one of the hostages.
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THE deadline set by insurgents who have threatened to execute a kidnapped Briton and two Americans ran out last night. The three were among dozens of hostages being held by militant groups.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan have extended a deadline for their  demands to be met because of the time taken for negotiators to  arrive for talks, a spokesman for the kidnappers said on  Saturday.
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Afghan militants who have threatened to  kill three kidnapped U.N. workers have agreed to give the  government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban  prisoners, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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BAGHDAD - Several insurgent groups in Iraq have set deadlines for killing hostages, from a trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless demands are met.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan said they would give officials until Friday to meet their demands that the United Nations withdraw from the country and the US release Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from  the government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon and said  it would kill one of the captives if they were not met.
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Kidnappers of three U.N. workers in  Afghanistan said on Thursday they expect the government to  release 26 Taliban prisoners in exchange for their hostages  before the Muslim Eid festival this weekend.
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The kidnappers of a Northern Ireland woman in Afghanistan have again extended the deadline for their demands to be met. Annetta Flanigan from County Armagh and her United Nations colleagues, Filipino Angelito
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement threatened to kill two German hostages if its demands were not met by 07:30 GMT on Saturday, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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Militants who have threatened to kill  three U.N. workers seized in Afghanistan almost three weeks ago  appeared to narrow demands for their release on Tuesday and  said they would meet later in the day to decide their fate.
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Militants holding three foreign UN workers Sunday gave Afghan officials a list of 26 prisoners whom they want released, with Tuesday the new deadline.