Gaza Gunmen Kidnap Senior Palestinian Official
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top security official in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule amid a wave of unrest.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a BBC reporter from his car in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said.
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Hamas gunmen on Friday burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza and arrested him, relatives said. He was the most senior Fatah politician to be detained since Hamas forces overtook the territory in June.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox.
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A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Monday by unknown assailants, Palestinian police sources said.
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Gunmen shot and killed a senior official from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said.
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized a senior Iranian diplomat as he drove through a central Baghdad neighborhood, officials said Tuesday.
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Masked gunmen briefly seized the  Palestinian governor's office in a southern Gaza Strip town on  Sunday, demanding compensation for Israeli raids in a protest  that added to signs of growing lawlessness.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah arrested a Hamas lawmaker and a top interior ministry official in the occupied West Bank on Monday, security officials said.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.
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Gunmen stormed an office of a Palestinian   news service under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas on   Tuesday, beating up one reporter and vandalizing equipment,   witnesses and the news agency said.
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Israel detains more than 30 senior Hamas officials, including the Palestinian education minister.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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Palestinian police search for an Israeli Arab employee of the CNN network kidnapped in Gaza at gunpoint.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian gunmen seized the governor&#39;s office in a southern city on Sunday, demanding aid for families left homeless by an Israeli military operation, witnesses said.
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Somali gunmen kidnapped the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague as they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday, embassy staff said.
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Palestinian security services were hunting on Tuesday for a BBC correspondent kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men in Gaza, the latest foreigner abducted in the increasingly lawless territory.