Iraq Kidnappers Demand Indonesia Cleric Freed-TV
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An Iraqi militant group claiming to have  kidnapped two Indonesian women said it would release them if  Jakarta freed a Muslim cleric detained on suspected terror  links, Al Jazeera television reported Saturday.
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The Iraqi militant group which killed Briton Ken Bigley has called for hostage Margaret Hassan to be freed, a message on an Islamic website said.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to release a Japanese hostage, in an interview with the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera.
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Iraq's president calls for the release of an Iranian official detained by US forces in the country's Kurdish north.
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Iraqi-Polish hostage Teresa Borcz Khalifa has appealed to her government on a video, saying her life depended on the withdrawal of Polish forces from Iraq as demanded by her Iraqi captors.
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Indonesia has confirmed the kidnapping  of two Indonesian women in Iraq and advised any other nationals  in the country to leave immediately, a Foreign Ministry  official said on Friday.
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An Iraqi militant group has released two Indonesian women hostages, who were handed over to the United Arab Emirates&#39; embassy in Baghdad, Abu Dhabi Television reported.
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Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera Sunday aired video apparently showing three UN election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan and the kidnappers&#39; demand for the release of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Militants have kidnapped two relatives of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan and demanded US forces leave the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported Wednesday.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Kidnappers have abducted a  Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and  demanded a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV  television channel said Saturday.
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The leader of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community urges US forces to free ex-deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
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The militant group al-Qaeda in Iraq purportedly called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret Hassan, and promised to free her if she fell into their hands.
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An Islamist group in Iraq says it has abducted an Italian and will kill him unless Rome announces within 48 hours that it will pull out of the country, Al-Jazeera television reported.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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Dubai - An Iraqi militant group said it had kidnapped 10 people, including two Indonesian women, and demanded that their company cut contacts with foreign forces in Iraq, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
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Rogue Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has called for the release of an American freelance journalist with New England roots who was seized in Nasiriyah Friday.
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Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish  shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded  a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV television  channel said on Saturday.