Editor: Hostages in Iraq Given to Group
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Paris newspaper editor said Thursday that two French journalists held by kidnappers were turned over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes that they could soon be released. A separate militant group in Iraq said it had killed three Turkish captives...
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In his last newspaper dispatch before he and a colleague fell into the hands of Islamic kidnappers on Aug. 19, French reporter Georges Malbrunot wrote from Iraq that &quot;more
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ISLAMABAD : A group, holding three UN hostages in Afghanistan, said on Wednesday the hostages may be handed over to the groupâs military commission to decide their fate.
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An Iraqi group has released two Indonesian women captives who were handed over to the United Arab Emirates&#39; embassy in Baghdad, Arab television reported.
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Ten Turkish hostages held captive by a group in Iraq since last month have returned to their company&#39;s offices in Baghdad. &quot;We can confirm that the 10 Turkish hostages have been freed.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The captors of relief worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to a group that beheaded several hostages if British troops don&#39;t leave Iraq, Al-Jazeera said Tuesday.
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Negotiations to free a CBS News journalist seized in the southern Iraqi city of Basra a week ago are being held up over discussions about how he should be released, a leading Shi'ite militia group said on Sunday.
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An Iraqi insurgency group says it has released two French journalists held hostage since August, delivering them to the French Embassy in Baghdad, the Arab-language television network Al-Jazeera reported.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two French journalists who were kidnapped by a radical Islamic group in Iraq four months ago were released Tuesday, Al-Jazeera television network reported.
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Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
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An Iraqi group said Friday it was holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq but would release him Saturday because he was opposed to US administration policies, according to a statement on the internet.
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Five British civilians kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a group trained, funded and armed by Iran, US commander says.
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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Hopes of a swift end to the French  hostage crisis rose early Friday, after the Le Figaro newspaper  that employs one of the two captives said the men were now  being held by Iraqi guerrillas willing to negotiate their  release.
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Iraq kidnap victim Margaret Hassan&#39;s three sisters, from left to right: Catherine Fitzsimons, Deidre Fitzsimons and Geraldine Fitzsimons make a statement to the media in Dublin Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, as violence continued in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...