US frees more prisoners in Iraq
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The US frees about 230 of its prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq in the second mass release this year.
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US troops have released a group of Iranians who were detained in a raid on a hotel in Baghdad.
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Fifty Iraqis will be freed from U.S. prisons in Iraq each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the office of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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YANGON - Myanmar&#39;s junta will release an additional 5,070 prisoners, bringing the total number of prisoners to be released to 14,318, state media reported Saturday.
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Ten Guantanamo Bay inmates have been freed and returned home to Saudi Arabia, US and Saudi officials say.
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BAGHDAD -- The US military is reaping more high-quality intelligence tips from Iraqi prisoners than ever, since it jettisoned several coercive interrogation techniques after the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal in May, the American general in charge of Iraqi prisons said yesterday.
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US and Iraqi forces are holding about 600 suspected insurgents captured in security operations south of the capital, Baghdad, in the past five months, the US military said.
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At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops raided a suspected al Qaeda prison camp north of Baghdad and freed 41 men, some of whom said they had been held for four months, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid yesterday on an Al Qaeda hide-out north of Baghdad, the US military said.
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Iraqi kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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US troops have captured 34 Iraqis, including 10 wanted for making explosive devices to attack coalition forces, the military said Tuesday.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The United States has welcomed a decision by Britain to deploy more than 800 troops to the US-controlled sector around Baghdad. The move is intended to free US forces to tackle insurgents in other parts of
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Major U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq are nearly full, with the number of suspected insurgents in custody at the highest level since March, according to detention officials.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 26 -- Iraq's top five political leaders announced an agreement Sunday night to release thousands of prisoners being held without charge and to reform the law that has kept thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's political party out of government jobs.