Iranian diplomat snatched in Iraq
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, Iraqi and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, and Tehran blamed the U.S. military and demanded his immediate release.
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Suspected militants have kidnapped an Iraqi intelligence officer in response to the fighting in the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD : Six staff of a Saudi Arabian company, including one US citizen, an Asian and at least three Iraqis, were kidnapped from their offices in Baghdad, police and a lawyer for the company told AFP.
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Kidnappers holding an Iranian diplomat in Iraq will "punish" him within 48 hours if Iran does not release 500 prisoners captured in its 1980-1988 war with Iraq, Iranian state television said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD : Twelve people were killed in fresh violence across Iraq as an Iranian diplomat kidnapped two months ago by the same Islamic extremist group holding two French reporters was released.
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized an Iranian diplomat as he drove through central Baghdad, officials said Tuesday. Tehran condemned the abduction and blamed U.S. forces in Iraq
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Gunmen abducted Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s 75-year-old cousin and the cousin&#39;s daughter-in-law from their home in Baghdad, Allawi&#39;s spokesman said in a statement e-mailed from the capital.
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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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27 September 2004 -- An Iranian diplomat was freed by his captors in Iraq today after spending more than a month as a hostage. Iran&#39;s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Faridoun Jahani, the Iranian consul in
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BAGHDAD  - An Iranian diplomat and an Egyptian telecom worker held for days by Islamic militants in Iraq were freed as 12 people died in fresh violence across the country.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 27  - An Iranian diplomat was freed Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
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The Iranian foreign ministry said Monday an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago was released and safe. &quot;The release of Freedon Jahani came as a result of
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Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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A Catholic archbishop in the northern Iraq city of Mosul is kidnapped, on a day of violence across Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 6 -- Iranian officials in Iraq on Tuesday accused U.S. forces of collaborating with Iraqi soldiers in what they described as the kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat in downtown Baghdad.