Afghan Militants Drop Guantanamo Prisoner Demand
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A Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill three foreign U.N. workers abducted in Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago appeared to narrow its demands for their release Tuesday.
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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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Militants holding hostage three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan said they negotiated yesterday with Afghan government and UN officials in southern Afghanistan but that the meeting ended without results.
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Pro-Taliban militants in a Pakistan tribal border region with Afghanistan said Sunday they had scrapped a controversial peace accord reached with the government last year.
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TANK, Pakistan - An Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani tribesman who spent time in Guantanamo Bay has rejected an appeal by tribal elders to free two Chinese hostages whom he has threatened to kill, mediators said Wednesday.
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Afghan militants who have threatened to  kill three kidnapped U.N. workers have agreed to give the  government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban  prisoners, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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The U.S. military has ordered three detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held into the cases of more terror suspects.
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After questions about their impartiality, three military officers were removed Thursday from hearing the cases of four suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay.
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MILITANTS threatening to kill three foreign United Nations workers abducted in Afghanistan said yesterday they had split them up to thwart rescue attempts.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped United Nations workers, including a British woman, are demanding the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly held at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostagesâ lives.
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Talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders said Wednesday they would support the military using force to free the pair.
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The chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and several other presidential contenders are withdrawing their rejection of Saturday's election.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed a call that he resign as unconstitutional, but said his challengers had the right to make the demand.
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Militants who have threatened to kill  three U.N. workers seized in Afghanistan almost three weeks ago  appeared to narrow demands for their release on Tuesday and  said they would meet later in the day to decide their fate.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants holding three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have said they will kill them unless all Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners are released from US custody by noon (2:30 am ET) on Wednesday.
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A militant group threatening to kill three UN hostages said Thursday they were in talks with the Afghan government about the group&#39;s demand that Taliban prisoners be released.