Ambassador in hostage appeal
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Britain's ambassador to Iraq has appealed for the release of the five men kidnapped by armed militia in Baghdad.
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Top officials from aid agency CARE appealed for the release of their kidnapped British-Iraqi executive Margaret Hassan, one day after she made a desperate plea to the British government to save her life by ...
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Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq is pleading for information on Ken Bigley&#39;s beheaded body. The British engineer was kidnapped last month and later murdered.
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The wife of the U.S. hostage  threatened with execution in Iraq made another impassioned  appeal on Tuesday for her husband's life and urged his captors  to open up the lines of communication.
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Lawyers for three Americans charged with torturing suspects in a private jail during a freelance hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan appealed Wednesday to the US ambassador to help stop their trial.
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The militant group al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq has appealed for information that would lead to the recovery of the remains of former hostage Ken Bigley.
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A joint appeal for the release of Dublin-born humanitarian aid worker Margaret Hassan kidnapped in Iraq was issued by the Irish and Palestinian foreign ministers.
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- The family of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq made a final desperate appeal to his captors Thursday to &quot;be merciful&quot;, as hopes for his safe release started to fade.
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The United Nations again appealed for the  safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan  on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their  car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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Guinea-Bissau students holding their  ambassador hostage in Moscow said on Thursday the government  had promised to start paying their overdue grants, but vowed to  hold the envoy until the cash was in their hands.
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Britain&#39;s Ambassador to Iraq appealed for Iraqis to come forward with information on the body of murdered British hostage Ken Bigley so he can &quot;finally be laid to rest in peace.
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free two US citizens and a Briton kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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International aid organisation CARE is trying to secure the release of its Iraq director who was kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday morning.
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Efforts to rescue a Japanese hostage in Iraq continued Wednesday with a call from Japan&#39;s foreign minister on the abductors to free the young man while the British hostage in