Militants Behead 3 Kurd Hostages in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced Sunday, hours after Iraq's prime minister said January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that American and Iraqi troops were winning the fight against an increasingly bold insurgency.    In another sign of continuing instability 17 months into the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, a suicide car bomb killed three people in Samarra - a northern city that U.S...
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Arabic language al-Jazeera television is reporting that militants in Iraq have taken 10 more people hostage. Video footage broadcast Thursday shows three hostages, who were not identified, and two masked men pointing guns at the captives.
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An Islamist Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages &#151; one a Kurdish translator and the other a Turkish contractor wearing a badge of the Titan security company.
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Islamic militants in Iraq claim to have killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers who were kidnapped last month on their way to low-level reconstruction jobs there.
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Militants in Iraq have beheaded an Iraqi contractor who they say was working for US forces. Members of the Ansar al-Sunna Army, the group responsible for the beheading said in a videotaped message on an Islamist
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Video that appeared on an Islamic Web site Thursday showed militants in Iraq beheading a man identified as a kidnapped Turkish driver.
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BAGHDAD - The Islamist group Ansar al-Jihad is threatening to behead three kidnapped relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Militants behead at least four security officials taken hostage in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Islamic militants in Iraq apparently have killed a Turkish man whom they took hostage last month. Mr. Kumdereli was abducted with another Turkish truck driver in mid-August.
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Iraqi insurgents beheaded three Iraqi guards Wednesday in the latest blow to US efforts to reconstitute the war-ravaged nation. Al-Jazeera aired a video showing the beheadings, the BBC reported.
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Islamist militants, calling themselves the Army of Ansar al-Sunna, said Saturday they captured and beheaded Baghdad contractor Barie Dawood Ibrahim.
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Militants in Iraq said they had  beheaded a second American hostage and would kill a Briton  unless Iraqi women were freed from jail.
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An Iraqi militant group kills three Turkish hostages, reports Arabic TV station al-Jazeera.
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Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced Sunday, hours after Iraq&#39;s prime minister said January elections would be held on schedule.
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Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish militiamen as they traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three and wounding nine, hospital sources in the nearby town of Arbil said.
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A militant group in Iraq, the Armyof Ansar al-Sunna, said in a statement on its website on Saturdayit beheaded an Iraqi man it accused of collaborating with USforces.
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.