Gunmen Hold, Release 35 Police Recruits in Iraq
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Gunmen briefly detained 35  unarmed Iraqi police recruits in their hotel near the Jordanian  border on Tuesday night, but released them after they pretended  to be businessmen.
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Insurgents holding eight Chinese laborers hostage in Iraq said on Saturday they were releasing the men, locals who saw a videotape circulated by the kidnappers said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb Tuesday ripped through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis were waiting to apply for jobs on the force, and gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from work in Baqouba, killing at least 59 people total and wounding at least 114.    The attacks were the latest attempts by insurgents to disrupt U.S.-backed efforts to build a strong Iraqi police force capable of taking over security in many towns and cities ahead of nationwide elections slated for January...
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 170 foreigners:
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U.S. and Iraqi troops captured eight suspected insurgents Thursday in raids north of Baghdad as part of a campaign to prevent insurgents from regrouping outside the city during the ongoing security crackdown.
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There were fears tonight for the lives of 31 Iraqi policemen who were kidnapped as they returned from a training camp in Jordan. They were abducted on Sunday when gunmen stormed the hotel they were staying
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in a daylight attack in Baghdad on Thursday, highlighting the threat from sectarian death squads which a top U.S. general said must be reined in.
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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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The bodies of 14 policemen are found near Baghdad, hours after militants said they seized 18 men in the area.
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Gunmen kidnapped 15 Iraqi National Guards on Friday after ambushing their convoy on a desert road in the restive west of the country, an officer said.
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Security forces have surrounded a high school in northwestern Pakistan where gunmen on Monday took hostage about 30 students and teachers, police said
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At least 25 students were taken hostage in northwest Pakistan Monday by a group of five or six suspected criminals being pursued by police, police told CNN.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents in four days of raids across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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Iraqi police detain beggars and mentally ill people found on the streets who could be exploited by militants.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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Authorities have arrested 35 men suspected of membership in an al-Qaida- inspired group that planned to carry out attacks in Egypt, a police official said Saturday.