Korean hostages set to fly home
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Nineteen newly freed South Korean hostages were expected to fly out of the Afghan capital on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama, sources close to the arrangements said, after a deal critics fear could spur more abductions.
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Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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Nineteen South Korean former hostages who spent six weeks under threat of death from Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban arrived home Sunday, saying they felt as if they had died and then got their lives back.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will on Wednesday start releasing the 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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Taliban and South Korean negotiators were expected on Tuesday to resume talks on the fate of the remaining 19 Korean hostages held by the militant group in Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan released three South Korean hostages, the first of 19 captives scheduled to be freed under a deal struck between the insurgents and the South Korean government.
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The three UN workers held hostage for almost four weeks in Afghanistan are preparing to fly home this morning. Annetta Flanigan from Co Armagh and her two colleagues were found early yesterday after apparently
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South Korean officials and Taleban militants are to hold talks on the release of 19 hostages, officials say.
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Holed up in Canada&#39;s embassy in Beijing since September, a group of North Koreans have finally been released and allowed to travel to another country.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by  guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend will return home soon, state  media said on Monday.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who was kidnapped in March, is in Israel, preparing to fly home to Britain.
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq headed home Wednesday, ending a drama that has gripped their country for four months and appears to have turned on its opposition to the war in Iraq.
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Intensive efforts are under way to free 23 South Korean hostages held by the Taleban in Afghanistan.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend will return home soon, state media said on Monday.
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SEOUL, Sept. 2 -- Looking wan and exhausted, and apologizing for the trouble they had caused their nation, South Korean missionaries held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan arrived home early Sunday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- South Korean negotiators and Taliban leaders have reached an agreement that will allow for the release of 19 hostages from a South Korean church who have been held captive by Afghan insurgents for nearly six weeks, officials in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
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A South Korean government delegation arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23 of their countrymen kidnapped by Taliban insurgents demanding Seoul pull its troops out of the country.