Report: Taliban kidnapper killed
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Afghan police killed a Taliban militant alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers, authorities said Tuesday. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain, while separate suicide attacks killed three police officers.
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British hostage Ken Bigley has been killed by his kidnappers in Iraq, his family confirms.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed the second German hostage after the group's demands were ignored, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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International and Afghan forces killed a dozen Taliban overnight including a commander involved in the July kidnapping of 23 South Koreans, a provincial police chief said Tuesday.
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The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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ANKARA, Dec 15  - The Turkish ambassador in Afghanistan has confirmed the death of a Turkish engineer kidnapped Tuesday in Afghanistan&#39;s eastern Kunar province, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.
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"We can't give up our efforts now"  By Sayed SalahuddinKABUL  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met."I got information from Taliban that they shot dead one of the hostages and the second one will be killed by 1 p.m. (local time)," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.The two unidentified Germans along with six Afghan colleagues were kidnapped at gun point while traveling in a vehicle on Wednesday in Wardak province which lies to the southwest of Kabul. Read more
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A man suspected of involvement in the  abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody  last week and authorities are investigating whether he was  tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Afghan Taliban rebels killed the second of two German hostages on Saturday after the end of their deadline for Germany to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and the Afghan government to free all Taliban prisoners.
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Kenneth Bigley, the Briton held hostage in Iraq by the Tawhid Wal Jihad group, has been killed, according to an Islamic Web site. The UK foreign ministry said it doubts the authenticity of the report.
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The US military said it had captured more than five Taliban leaders, and confirmed the death of a rebel commander who was released two years ago from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Afghan Taliban rebels said they had killed two German hostages on Saturday, but Germany's foreign minister said one of the hostages was still alive and the other had died of a heart attack.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley is killed by his kidnappers in Iraq, his family confirms.
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The body of a kidnapped Turkish construction engineer was found in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Ayub was shot dead less than 24 hours after being abducted by a militant gang on Tuesday on the road between Jalalabad and Kunar province.
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Britain was urgently investigating unconfirmed reports that Kenneth Bigley, a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad in mid-September, has been killed by his captors.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  - A Chinese engineer held  hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan was killed on  Thursday but his colleague rescued in a commando assault that  killed their five kidnappers, officials said.