Italian military deny having turned back US reporter kidnapped in Iraq
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Italian military officials denied reports that they had kicked out of their base in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah an American journalist who was kidnapped at the weekend while reporting on archaeological sites in the area.
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ROME - Italy insisted on Wednesday it did not pay a million-dollar ransom to win the release of two aid workers, as the country rejoiced in the homecoming of the women who said they were ready to return to Iraq to continue their work there.
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(AGI) - Cairo, 30 ago. - La Francia non cede al ricatto dei sequestratori dei due giornalisti rapiti in Iraq che chiedono la revoca dela legge che proibisce il velo islamico a scuola. &quot;La legge entrera&#39; in
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The Iraqi kidnappers of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni killed him because Italy refused to heed their earlier deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq, Al Jazeera television said on Friday.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad on Friday, the latest in a series of brazen  abductions but the first since Iraq's election.
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A Web posting in the name of a militant group in Iraq claimed Tuesday to have executed an Italian female journalist, but there was no way to determine the report's credibility.
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Frattini s comments contradict statements made by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who said Tuesday the Italian government won t withdraw troops from Iraq following threats of attack by an armed group that ...
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TONY EASTLEY: An Australian journalist snatched by insurgents in Iraq, has contradicted claims by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer that he was kidnapped in a part of Baghdad where he was advised not to go.
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Italy&#39;s government dismissed reports Wednesday that it paid $1 million to free two Italian aid workers who were kidnapped in Iraq and held for three weeks before being released Tuesday.
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An Iraqi group which claims it is holding  an Italian journalist kidnapped in Iraq said Monday it would  release her soon because she was not a spy, a statement on an  Islamist Web site said.
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Two Italian soldiers are believed to have been kidnapped while on patrol in western Afghanistan, Italy's Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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The Italian government has urged caution on reports that two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed, saying the claims are unreliable and part of a terrorism campaign being carried out ...
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Italy insisted on Friday that the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamist kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.
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An Islamist group led by the Al-Qaeda number two Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi denied it was holding two kidnapped Italian aid workers, according to a statement posted on an Islamist website.
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One of the two Italian aid workers freed after three weeks in captivity in Iraq said the fight against American troops and their allies there was not terrorism but legitimate resistance to occupation.
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Rome - A defiant Italy said on Friday it would not give in to &quot;terrorist blackmail&quot; after the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq by insurgents who demanded that Rome withdraw its troops from the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The brother of a British hostage held by terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi accused the United States on Thursday of sabotaging efforts to save the captive&#39;s life, and Italy cast doubt on claims that two kidnapped Italian women