Gunmen kidnap 6 in Iraq
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Gunmen have seized six people in Iraq after a gun battle in which one guard and one of the assailants were killed. The kidnappers stormed the compound of a Saudi company in an
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Gunmen in police uniforms abduct dozens of people from a commercial area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 -- Gunmen stopped a minibus driving north of Baghdad on Monday and abducted 13 Iraqi civilians inside, Iraqi police reported. The mass kidnapping was a renewed tactic that has grown increasingly rare as violence has ebbed in Iraq.
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Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad on Monday, police said.
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Gunmen nabbed six Egyptians working for Iraq&#39;s mobile phone company, seizing two in a raid on the firm&#39;s Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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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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Gunmen in speedboats attacked an oil vessel off the coast of Nigeria at dawn Friday and kidnapped six workers, Italian energy giant Eni SpA said.
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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Gunmen have abducted three relatives of Iraq&#39;s prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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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) - Iraqi officials say shots were apparently fired as an American and three other people were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six foreign  staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up their apartment  with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi,  security sources said on Sunday.
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Gunmen abducted six Egyptians working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.
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Gunmen abducted Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s 75-year-old cousin and the cousin&#39;s daughter-in-law from their home in Baghdad, Allawi&#39;s spokesman said in a statement e-mailed from the capital.
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Gunmen kidnapped six Russians and shot dead a local driver in a dawn attack on a residential compound of a Russian aluminum company in Nigeria on Sunday, authorities said.
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Gunmen kidnapped three British nationals in the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.