German national kidnapped in Afghanistan: officials
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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Two German civilians taken hostage in Afghanistan this week have been killed, a Taleban spokesman says.
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Militants kidnapped a Turkish engineer in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended Germany's troop deployment in Afghanistan, even as a kidnapped German was found dead there and government officials warned the country is facing a higher risk of terrorist attacks.
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A foreign soldier went missing on Wednesday in Afghanistan and the country's Taliban movement said it had kidnapped him.
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A German who says he was kidnapped three  years ago and held for months in Afghanistan by the CIA was  given money by the Americans to keep quiet, a former German  minister said on Thursday.
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Afghan security forces captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  on a bus to Kandahar, an Afghan security official in the  southern city told Reuters Tuesday.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday.
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A German citizen, missing since the end of June, is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, Berlin says.
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The two hostages are said to be a woman and her son A militant Islamist group in Iraq which says it has two German hostages has threaten to kill them if Berlin does not pull its troops from Afghanistan.Comment
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The Afghan election commission has confirmed the kidnapping of three foreign election workers in the capital of Kabul, according to CRIENGLISH.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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A US female aid worker was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, officials told AFP.
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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.
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The Afghan government said Tuesday it had arrested two "high-ranking European officials" for posing threats to the national security of the war-torn country.
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An American woman working for an aid agency is kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, along with her driver.