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The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home Thursday -- a bold abduction that underscores the increasing danger for foreigners in the
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WASHINGTON -- A US citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and is being held as an enemy combatant remains in US custody Thursday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan forces searched on Sunday for a U.S. aid worker kidnapped by gunmen from the southern city of Kandahar.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Gaza City - A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City late on Monday, CNN and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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Iraqi police said Wednesday a Lebanese American contractor was kidnapped overnight from his Baghdad home, according to The Associated Press.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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American and Afghan forces searching for three kidnapped UN workers smashed their way into a number of Kabul houses today. About 10 people were detained in the pre-dawn operation, but there was no indication the three foreigners had been found.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in the heart of the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The US Embassy confirms an American is among six people kidnapped during a bloody gun battle in Baghdad yesterday. Two of the six -- both Iraqi guards -- have since been let go.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 16: Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an affluent Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by a  gang of armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering a huge  manhunt by Afghan security and international peacekeepers.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.