Taliban Says Women as Hostages Is Against Islam
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban guerrillas reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of three UN workers and said they opposed the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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Pair deported after Kabul government denounces them for 'negotiating' with Taliban
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The purported leader of Taliban-linked militants holding three United Nations hostages, including Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan, said his group was split over whether they should âget ridâ of the captives.
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the kidnap of 18 South Korean Christians and two German nationals, and said they would only free the Germans if Berlin withdraws troops from Afghanistan.
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Authorities insisted they won&#39;t give in to militants&#39; demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed
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South Koreans held hostage by the Taleban in Afghanistan say they were told at gunpoint to convert to Islam.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban movement said on  Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was  holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other  in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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The kidnappers of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan say they will kill their hostages by Wednesday if a list of demands is not met.
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Afghan militants repeated a threat to  kill three U.N. hostages and rejected government talk of a  ransom offer on Monday, saying they were sticking to their  demand for the release of Taliban prisoners.
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A group threatening to kill three kidnapped foreigners working for the United Nations in Afghanistan has denied extending the deadline for the United States to release all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response from the Afghan  government and United Nations to its conditions on Tuesday,  saying it would kill them if they were not met.
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Hardline religious students in Islamabad abduct a group of people, including women, accusing them of prostitution.
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A Pakistani mullah whose mosque held two policemen hostage has warned President Pervez Musharraf that a Taliban-style opposition movement is emerging to challenge his already crisis-hit regime.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Kidnappers threatening to kill three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan complained yesterday that the government had yet to free 26 Taliban prisoners as part of a deal they said it made to secure the trio's release.
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A militant Afghan group holding three foreign UN workers has given negotiators a list of Taliban prisoners and said it will kill the hostages unless they -- and all Afghans jailed in Guantanamo Bay -- are freed.
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Hard-line religious students from a mosque in the Pakistani capital kidnapped nine people including six Chinese women early on Saturday, accusing them of running a brothel, the Islamists said.
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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