Veteran Aid Worker in Iraq Abducted
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting a charity worker who for decades championed ordinary Iraqis. In new violence, mortar attacks killed an American contractor and at least four Iraqi National Guard members and wounded 80 Iraqis, the U.S...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S. female aid worker was abducted on Saturday in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said.
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The charity Care International has suspended its aid operations in Iraq after the abduction of its regional director in Baghdad. Dublin-born Margaret Hassan was seized on her way to work in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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Armed gunmen have abducted a Lebanese-American contractor from his Baghdad home, CNN reported Wednesday. The contractor, who reportedly works for the US Army in the Green Zone
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The fate of kidnapped Iraqi humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan may depend on which group&#39;s hands she has fallen into. A staggering number of kidnappings take place in Iraq, the vast majority for money.
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A director of an international charity in Iraq has been kidnapped as she was being driven to work in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, a British-born Iraqi national, was abducted in the capital, CARE International UK said in London.
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The Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan is entering her third day in captivity in Iraq today after being kidnapped while on her way to work in Baghdad on Tuesday morning.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.
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_ Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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An Iraqi woman who spent decades helping her homeland as a humanitarian aid worker, only to be abducted in Baghdad last month, is believed to be dead.
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An Islamic militant group in Iraq has kidnapped a US national of Lebanese origin who works as a manager at Baghdad airport, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel reported on Friday.
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Leading relief agency CARE International halted work in Iraq after its head of operations there was abducted, further fuelling fears that aid workers were becoming soft targets for hostage-takers.
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Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad yesterday, targeting a charity worker who has championed ordinary Iraqis for decades.
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Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday that Margaret Hassan, who has been working
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 -- Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver in southern Afghanistan's largest city early Saturday, seizing the woman from a residential neighborhood as she was on her way to work.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a residence in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood housing many embassies and foreign companies.    The three, all employees of Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col...
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The head of a British charity&#39;s operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today, as four Iraqi National Guard soldiers and an American civilian contractor were killed in separate attacks.