Hostages 'freed' in Afghanistan
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Three foreign UN workers taken hostage last month in Afghanistan are released, officials say.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s government said Tuesday that progress had been made towards freeing three
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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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Four more South Korean hostages are freed in Afghanistan, leaving three remaining in Taleban hands.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from an Afghan prison Sunday &#151; a major gesture meant to better strained relations between the neighboring countries.
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Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan and her two fellow hostages, from Kosova and the Philippines, were freed on Tuesday in circumstances which have yet to become clear.
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Two Italian soldiers kidnapped in western Afghanistan last week were freed in a raid by NATO-led forces early on Monday, Italy's Defense Ministry said.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan have been freed unharmed, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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Three workers of the United Nations kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed Tuesday, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - US and Afghan forces have apparently freed three UN workers who were kidnapped in Kabul on Oct. 28. On Monday, US and Afghan forces raided a house in Kabul, in what appears to have been part of an operation to free the hostages.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents freed seven remaining South Korean hostages in Afghanistan on Thursday after a six-week kidnap ordeal, following a deal that Afghan officials said included a ransom payment by Seoul.
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The Taliban has agreed to release 19  South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan in return for the  withdrawal of South Korean troops from the country before the  end of the year, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan released on Thursday four of the remaining seven South Korean hostages they had kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, witnesses said.
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The Taliban freed eight of their 19 South Korean captives as the wrenching six-week hostage crisis in Afghanistan neared resolution.
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Aides to a top Shi&#39;ite cleric in Iraq say 18 captive Iraqi soldiers have been freed by kidnappers who had threatened to kill them.