Kuwait firm &#39;quits&#39; Iraq to help free staff
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Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Co (KGL) has said it will halt its operations in Iraq after a group holding seven of its drivers captive has said they will release them if the firm ends its work in the country.
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The Kuwaiti firm which has seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq has decided to halt operations in the troubled country, bowing to the kidnappers' condition for their release, it said.
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The last batch of Japanese troops touched down in Kuwait from southern Iraq on Monday, ending the country&#039;s largest and most dangerous overseas mission since World War II.
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Contrack International Inc., an Arlington engineering and construction company, became the first major U.S. firm to withdraw from a reconstruction contract in Iraq because the deteriorating security environment had made working there too costly.
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Iraqi kidnappers of seven employees of a Kuwaiti company said in a video statement on Thursday they would release the captives once their employer halted operations in Iraq, Al Arabiya television reported.
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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish company said Sunday it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to behead its employee unless it ceased operations in the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.    The group, calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement - Al-Noaman Brigades, released a tape showing a bearded man, purported to be the Turkish truck driver, sitting in front of a black banner bearing the group's name in gold Arabic characters...
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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Three Indian truck drivers taken hostage by Iraqi militants have been released, Al Arabia news channel said on Wednesday. The truckers&#39; employers, Kuwait-Gulf Link company, confirmed the development.
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The political movement loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quit Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance on Saturday, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc will end its boycott of the country's Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday.
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MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res, one of the world&#39;s leading frontline aid organisations, today announced that it was withdrawing from Iraq because of the &quot;extreme risks&quot; facing aid workers.
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Iraqi kidnappers of seven employees of a  Kuwaiti company said in a video statement on Thursday they  would release the captives once their employer halted  operations in Iraq, Al Arabiya television reported.
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One of the few remaining aid agencies in Iraq, World Vision, is pulling out of the country.
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worked on projects to help Iraqi children, would be killed unless Italy withdrew its troops from Iraq. in Kuwait City on the first stop of a Gulf tour.
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Denmark ends the evacuation of some 200 Iraqis who it feared faced danger for their links to its troops in Iraq.
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The U.S. Army will discontinue its  multi-billion dollar contract with oil services giant  Halliburton Co.  to provide logistical support to U.S.  troops worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.