Marines save Syrian hostage
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- A Syrian found handcuffed in Fallujah and rescued by US Marines was kidnapped with two French journalists in August, and has told authorities he last saw the Frenchmen a month ago -- the first confirmed word on the captives since they disappeared in August.
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Divers have rescued two crew who spent  15 hours on the seabed in a stranded rescue submarine off  Australia's west coast, the military said on Tuesday.
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A Syrian man believed to have been captured along with two French journalists by militants in August was found in Fallujah, Marine officials said Friday.
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US journalist Micah Garen was on Sunday freed by an Iraqi group who had held him hostage in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya. &quot;I am very grateful to everyone who worked to protect me
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France said on Sunday two French reporters held hostage with their Syrian driver in Iraq were still alive a few days ago.
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Two Macedonians taken hostage by a militant group were reported to have been beheaded in Iraq yesterday. However, the first Australian kidnap victim in the country was freed after 36 hours in captivity.
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A Lebanese hostage escaped from his captors in the remote creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta and was not freed as his employer had said, the militant group that seized the man said on Thursday.
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was held as an enemy combatant for nearly 3 years, will be free to go home to Saudi Arabia. The federal government has reached an agreement with an American citizen captured on an Afghanistan
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MANILA, Nov 10  - A kidnapped Italian aid worker was recovered unharmed in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the military said.
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The US military has freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a gesture that could help the interim government&#39;s efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A Navy corpsman testified yesterday that Marines in his patrol seized an Iraqi civilian from his home, threw him into a hole, and put at least 10 bullets in his head and chest after growing frustrated in their search for an insurgent.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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Aides to a French MP said that two French journalists held hostage by Iraqi Islamists were in &quot;safe hands&quot; but that their release depended on the security situation around the rebel-held town of Fallujah.
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US and Iraqi forces said they had captured almost three quarters of Fallujah on Wednesday, and Iraqi troops had found &quot;hostage slaughterhouses&quot; where foreign captives had been held and killed.
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Iraqi kidnappers have freed two Lebanese  men who were taken hostage west of Baghdad last month, their  company's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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A Syrian man believed to have been the driver captured along with two French journalists by militants in August has been found in Fallujah, Marine officials said this morning.