Briton, two Americans kidnapped as Iraq hostage crisis escalates
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BAGHDAD : Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year&#39;s invasion became the latest victims of a five-month-old hostage crisis.
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A US Embassy spokesman said Tuesday that an American, a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi remain hostages after a kidnapping raid Monday night in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a two-storey house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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The hunt was on today for a British man and two of his American colleagues who were kidnapped by gunmen from their house in Baghdad.
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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl on Thursday, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in Nigeria&#39;s troubled main oil producing zone.
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BAGHDAD : Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis deepened as Islamists who beheaded two Americans let a Briton make a desperate videotaped plea, while another extremist group claimed to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
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Insurgents kidnapped two American and a British engineer on Thursday in a brazen dawn raid on their home in one of Baghdad&#39;s most affluent neighborhoods, underscoring
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Thursday September 16: Kenneth Bigley and two Americans - ' Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong - ' are seized by militants in a dawn raid in the wealthy Al-Mansour district of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their central Baghdad villa at dawn yesterday, in a bold raid that could further limit the mobility of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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Britain is urgently checking reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
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A Briton was tonight missing with two American colleagues after they were seized by gunmen from their house in Baghdad. The three were hauled away by militants without a shot
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Two Americans and a Briton were abducted from their home in a plush Baghdad district at dawn, in the latest blow in Iraq's five-month-old foreign hostage crisis, the interior ministry said.
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BAGHDAD, 2 November 2004 - One US citizen and five other employees of a Saudi trading company were kidnapped in Baghdad yesterday, plunging the country further into crisis on the eve of the US presidential elections.
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An American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards were kidnapped Monday when gunmen stormed their office in Baghdad, sparking a gunfight that killed an attacker and a guard, officials said.
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A BRITISH man and two Americans were kidnapped at dawn yesterday in an affluent Baghdad suburb after their guard failed to turn up for work.
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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in Nigeria on Thursday, police and witnesses said, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in the country&#39;s main oil-producing zone.