Taliban vows to release 4 health workers
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The body of a slain top Taliban commander was retrieved by his family Thursday, and in exchange militants will release four kidnapped Afghan medical workers, a purported Taliban spokesman said.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill three  foreign U.N. workers in Afghanistan complained on Friday that  the government had yet to free 26 Taliban prisoners as part of  a deal they said it made to secure the trio's release.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan complained yesterday that the government had yet to free 26 Taliban
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Three United Nations workers, held hostage and pictured in a video released yesterday, will be executed on Wednesday unless British forces leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are released from GuantÃ¡namo Bay, their Taliban kidnappers demanded yesterday
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Three United Nations hostages have been freed after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan, with kidnappers claiming that Taliban prisoners were due to be released in exchange.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped UN workers demanded yesterday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' lives.
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and say they oppose the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners. prisoners,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi on Wednesday.
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Taliban insurgents will release all 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have held hostage in Afghanistan since mid-July, South Korea's presidential Blue House said on Tuesday.
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South Korea said it expects the remaining seven Korean church volunteers held by the Taliban in Afghanistan to be released on Thursday.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from  the Afghan government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon,  saying it would kill one captive if they were not met.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan on Monday allowed four days for negotiations on their demand that the United Nations withdraw from the country.
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Taliban-linked militants have threatened to execute three foreign UN workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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A Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill three U.N. hostages again extended a deadline on its demands after the government said it would respond to them on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said.
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Pakistan was braced on Saturday for  reprisals from militants after the capture of one of the  Taliban's three most senior leaders earlier this week.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan released on Thursday four of the remaining seven South Korean hostages they had kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, witnesses said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants claiming to hold three United Nations workers hostage said talks on demands, which include the release of Taliban prisoners, had broken down and that they would decide Friday whether to kill the trio.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday they would release 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have held for nearly six weeks provided Seoul pulls out its troops and stops Korean missionary work in Afghanistan by year-end.