Iranian diplomat held hostage in Iraq freed: embassy
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An Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Iraq has been freed and is in the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, diplomatic sources told Xinhua on Monday.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq since mid-October has been freed, says the Polish prime minister.
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An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.
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Two Iraqi security guards said on Tuesday they were freed by kidnappers overnight but that the gunmen were still holding an American and a Nepali also seized from a villa used by a Saudi company in Baghdad.
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An Australian journalist was held hostage in Baghdad for 24 hours over the weekend before being released unharmed, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Monday.
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Nepal says that a Nepalese worker kidnapped in Iraq on Monday has been freed.
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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed 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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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 28, 2004 - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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BAGHDAD - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Two Lebanese hostages have been released after more than three weeks in captivity in Iraq, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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An Iraqi group has released U.S.  journalist Micah Garen whom it was holding hostage in Iraq,  Arab satellite television Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were freed on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.
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U.S. soldiers arrested members of an Iranian government delegation Tuesday at a hotel in Baghdad and took them to an unidentified location, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
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The Iranian foreign ministry said Monday an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago was released and safe. &quot;The release of Freedon Jahani came as a result of
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Kidnappers holding an Iranian diplomat in Iraq will "punish" him within 48 hours if Iran does not release 500 prisoners captured in its 1980-1988 war with Iraq, Iranian state television said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iran yesterday accused the United States of responsibility for the abduction of an Iranian diplomat snatched from a Baghdad street on Sunday by men wearing Iraqi Army uniforms.
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Iranian diplomat Fereidoun Jahani,  kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been released, Iran's state  television reported on Monday.