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BAGHDAD, Nov 16  - British-Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was feared dead on Tuesday after her family and the British government said she had probably been killed by her captors.
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Two Indonesian women held hostage for several days by militants in Iraq have been freed. The two women were handed over to the United Arab Emirates embassy in Baghdad on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, OCTOBER 8: Militants in Iraq beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley, three weeks after kidnapping him to press a demand for the release of women held by US-led forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 160 foreigners. Those held are:
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - The body of an Asian man found in Iraq does not resemble a Japanese hostage and was shot dead two days ago, well before a deadline to execute the young traveller expired, forensic experts said.
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The beheaded bodies of three people, believed to be foreigners, have been found in northern Iraq. The bodies were found by a group of Iraqi National Guardsmen shortly after dawn as they patrolled near the town of Dujail, 38 miles north of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq promised Wednesday to release one of two high-profile women prisoners, but officials denied the decision was linked to demands by militants who purportedly killed two American hostages and threatened to execute a Briton with them unless all female Iraqi prisoners are let go.    Later Wednesday, authorities said a corpse was found with its decapitated head in a black plastic bag western Baghdad...
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The 48-hour deadline for the execution of a Japanese hostage being held in Iraq, has passed, as the Koyodo newsagency reports that a body has been found in Tikrit.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A man who once lived in South Carolina and still has family in the state apparently became the second American hostage executed in Iraq in as many days on Tuesday.
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killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq. employers in Italy said they had not given up hope.
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BAGHDAD -- A gruesome video posted on a website purportedly showed militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.
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BAGHDAD - American forces believe they have found houses in Falluja that were used for the torture and murder of Western hostages, including one containing a cage similar to the one used to imprison Kenneth Bigley.
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The bodies of two Turkish hostages, apparently shot dead, have been found in Baiji in northern Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said. âAl-Jazeera learned from sources in the Iraqi police that the bodies of two
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US and Iraqi forces said they had captured almost three quarters of Fallujah on Wednesday, and Iraqi troops had found &quot;hostage slaughterhouses&quot; where foreign captives had been held and killed.
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BAGHDAD - Several insurgent groups in Iraq have set deadlines for killing hostages, from a trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless demands are met.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors' 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.