Taliban claims to kill ailing hostage
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One of 23 South Korean hostages held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been killed because he was very ill and could not be moved to hospital, a local Afghan official told CNN on Wednesday.
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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Efforts to free three foreign hostages threatened with death by a Taliban splinter group have reached a "sensitive" stage, the U.S. military said Saturday in urging the kidnappers not to harm them.
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A militant Islamic group claiming responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners working for the United Nations in Afghanistan has provided proof it has the hostages, diplomatic and security sources said on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 16  - Taliban militants on Thursday denied any hand in the abduction and murder of a Turkish man in Afghanistan, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
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KABUL, July 21 -- A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the hard-line Islamic movement had killed two German hostages, a claim disputed by Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 South Korean captives for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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KABUL, Nov 7 - Kidnappers who have threatened to kill three UN workers in Afghanistan have agreed to give the government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the kidnappers said on Sunday.
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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 on Tuesday.
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Afghanistanâs Foreign Ministry insisted that one of the hostages had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement on Saturday killed two German hostages after the group's demands were ignored, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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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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The Taliban threatened to kill 23 South Korean hostages if Afghan troops try to free them by force, as negotiations were under way to secure the release of the captives.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement on Saturday killed two German hostages after the group's demands were ignored, according to a spokesman, who said he represented the militant group.
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The Taliban on Monday gave 23 Korean hostages another 24 hours to live to allow the South Korean government to open direct talks with the kidnappers, a Taliban spokesman said on Monday.
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped three foreign election workers in Afghanistan said Friday that it would execute the hostages if the authorities pursued their search for the kidnappers.
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"We can't give up our efforts now"  By Sayed SalahuddinKABUL  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met."I got information from Taliban that they shot dead one of the hostages and the second one will be killed by 1 p.m. (local time)," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.The two unidentified Germans along with six Afghan colleagues were kidnapped at gun point while traveling in a vehicle on Wednesday in Wardak province which lies to the southwest of Kabul. Read more
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The kidnappers of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan say they will kill their hostages by Wednesday if a list of demands is not met.