Search on for kidnapped election worker and colleagues
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Roadblocks were set around the Afghanistan capital of Kabul today to search for a Northern Irish UN worker who was kidnapped with two colleagues.
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Security forces hunt for reporter and Iraqi interpreter abducted from hotel by armed gang
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A massive manhunt was underway for three UN foreign election workers whose daylight abduction in Kabul has sparked fears of the start of Iraq-style kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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The wife of a prominent Nigerian politician has been kidnapped in the oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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An emergency meeting for those hunting a convicted rapist who has absconded is announced by police.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by  armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering fears that militants  were copying tactics used by insurgents in Iraq.
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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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US and Afghan forces looking for hostages today raided houses in the Afghan capital of Kabul, officials and witnesses said. About ten people were detained in the pre-dawn operation by
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Afghan forces and international peacekeepers hunt for three foreign poll workers abducted in Kabul.
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The United Nations was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, it said on Thursday as it marked one week since they were abducted at gunpoint in Kabul by a Taliban splinter group which has threatened to kill them.
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Security forces in Afghanistan have launched a massive search for three United Nations election workers kidnapped in the capital, Kabul.
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A dual British-Irish national was one of three UN election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan, the Irish and British foreign ministries said.
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Three foreign election workers have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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The hunt was on today for a British man and two of his American colleagues who were kidnapped by gunmen from their house in Baghdad.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government sources and election commission officials said.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election have been kidnapped by armed men in Kabul, triggering fears that militants
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.