Hostage crisis: KGL halts work in Iraq
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Dubai: The Kuwaiti firm which has seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq has decided to halt operations in the troubled country, bowing to the kidnappers&#39; condition for their release, it said Friday.
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THE Iraqi Government shut down Al-Jazeera&#39;s Baghdad operations indefinitely today, extending a one-month closure order imposed after the pan-Arab channel was accused of inciting violence.
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The relief agency CARE International has shut down all operations in Iraq and urged insurgents to release its director in Bagdhad, Margaret Hassan, who was kidnapped more than a week ago.
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An international charity that provided Iraqis with clean water and medical supplies suspended operations yesterday following the kidnapping of its longtime director.
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CARE International has suspended its operations in Iraq following the kidnapping of its director there, the head of the aid agency's Australian arm said Wednesday.
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Nepal&#39;s government said it will evacuate its citizens working in Iraq after an Iraqi group said it executed 12 Nepalese hostages.
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The head of an international charity's operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today.
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Oil exports from southern Iraq have grounded to a complete halt because of a spate of attacks on pipelines. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Iraqi official from South Oil Company said oil flows
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Iraqi kidnappers of seven employees of a Kuwaiti company said in a video statement on Thursday they would release the captives once their employer halted operations in Iraq, Al Arabiya television reported.
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BAGHDAD - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said today, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the volatile nation&#39;s interim government.
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Threats from Maoist rebels in Nepal brought business in the Himalayan kingdom to a halt yesterday, as traffic blockades kept supplies from the capital, Kathmandu. There is only about 10 weeks&#39; worth of food in the city, and many travellers ...
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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NEW DELHI, AUGUST 25: The hostage situation in Iraq continued to drag with Kuwait Gulf Link (KGL) denying reports that contact has been made with the kidnappers in Iraq.
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The Iraqi kidnapping business continued unabated today with the abduction of two Egyptians in Baghdad. There was still no word of the fate of Briton Ken Bigley - or two Italian women whom websites claim have been beheaded.
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Turkish construction company Vinsan said last night that it was halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent suspended operations in Baghdad after gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped about 30 people from one of its offices in the capital on Sunday, an official of the humanitarian body said on Monday.
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Aid agency CARE International stops work in the wake of the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan in Baghdad.