Colombia rebels free two hostages from jungle
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia  - With tears, smiles and long hugs, two women hostages were freed by Colombia's Marxist rebels on Thursday after years in the jungle, raising hopes for dozens more languishing in secret camps.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels holding 62   hostages, including three Americans and former presidential   candidate Ingrid Betancourt, called on Monday for   "face-to-face" talks with the government on a prisoner   exchange.
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A Colombian aid worker and two Afghan colleagues who were abducted in Afghanistan earlier this month were freed, their organisation said.
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Colombia's leftist rebels said yesterday they would release three of the dozens of high-profile hostages they are holding as bargaining chips with the Colombian government
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Two women hostages flown out of Colombian jungle and heading home, says Venezuelan president
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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Philippine communist rebels freed Wednesday two soldiers they had held as "prisoners of war" for more than five months, saying they wanted to rebuild confidence in peace talks with the government.
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Many of the hostages held by Colombian rebels are kept chained in jungle camps surrounded by barbed wire and are terrified by encroaching army artillery and machine gun fire, a freed captive said on Friday.
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Recently released Colombian hostage Clara Rojas was reunited Sunday with her 3-year-old son, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors but taken away from her months after he was born.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez said that two women held by Colombian rebels for years were handed over to his government Thursday, triggering celebrations in this country. By early afternoon, they were being flown out of a Colombian jungle to be reunited with family...
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Police and army operations in two Colombian cities have led to one of the largest rebel surrenders since President Alvaro Uribe began his U.S.-backed security crackdown in 2002, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Two Turkish hostages were freed by Iraqi militants Sunday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, less than a week after the men's employers said they were ending operations in Iraq to save the lives of their employees.
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PRESENTACION, Philippines  - Philippine communist  rebels freed Wednesday two soldiers they had held as "prisoners  of war" for more than five months, saying they wanted to  rebuild confidence in peace talks with the government.
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Colombia's FARC rebels will release three more hostages, all former local lawmakers, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after he brokered the release of two captives last month, according to a rebel statement given to local Noticias Uno television on Saturday.
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A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two women freed by Colombian rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and depredation of the hostages they left behind.
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Venezuela has started a rescue operation in Colombia to secure the release of two hostages held by leftist rebels, an official said on Thursday, after a similar effort led by President Hugo Chavez collapsed last year.
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A Colombian woman freed by rebels after nearly six years in captivity said on Friday she tried to escape with her friend, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, and their captors used jungle snakes to punish them.