Islamists release 9 hostages in Pakistan
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Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including three Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
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Counterterrorism police arrested nine men in an alleged kidnapping plot Wednesday -- a plan that reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier
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Seven hostages, including two Italian aid workers, were released by two different groups yesterday. It was the second day in a row that foreign hostages were freed, raising hopes for at least 18 others still in captivity.
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Police on Wednesday released two of the nine men arrested last week on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist kidnapping plot.
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Iraqi militants have freed 10 employees of a Turkish construction company taken captive in Iraq in last month, the company&#39;s general manager says.
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Students from a radical mosque on Saturday raided an acupuncture clinic they said was used as a brothel in Pakistan's capital and kidnapped nine people, including Chinese women, police said.
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An Islamist group has released 18 Iraqi soldiers it had captured and threatened to kill unless an aide to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released, Arabic television Al Jazeera reported Monday.
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Pro-Taliban militants in  northwest Pakistan released 15 paramilitary troops on Tuesday  after nearly three weeks in captivity, a tribal elder said.
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About 20 children taken hostage at a school in north-west Pakistan after police shootout
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Terrorists holding 354 hostages at a school in southern Russia released some women and their children soon after talks to end the crisis resumed, a spokesman for the North Ossetian government said.
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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage on Monday in a northwestern town freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.
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The Taliban has agreed to release 19 South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan in return for the withdrawal of South Korean troops from the country before the end of the year, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 22. - Pakistan today said it has foiled attempts by Al-Qaida operatives to kill top leaders and bomb the Presidential palace, parliament building, the army headquarters and US embassy here by arresting nine militants.
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Militants released seven foreign hostages Wednesday after their employer paid &#36;500,000 ransom, while France mustered support from Muslims at home and abroad to push for the release of two French journalists still held captive in Iraq.
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Militants who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage in a northwestern town on Monday began freeing them after security forces surrounding the school withdrew, a witness said.
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South Korea's presidential office says the Taleban have agreed to free 19 hostages held in Afghanistan.
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A militant group said that it has released 10 Turkish hostages detained for 40 days in Iraq, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel reported Sunday.