Americans seized in Iraq
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An unidentified American, kidnapped Nov. 1 from Baghdad&#39;s Mansour district along with a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards. Two people an Iraqi guard and an attacker died in a gunbattle during the abductions.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq...
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TWO Arab nationals, a US citizen and an Asian, were kidnapped today from their offices in Baghdad. Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, an interior ministry spokesman, said militants struck in a well-off neighbourhood in central Baghdad.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger
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Gunmen stormed on Monday the compound of a Saudi company Baghdad neighborhood Monday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and two Iraqis, but the two Iraqi were freed shortly after their seizure.
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A senior Iraqi official says two Americans and one British contractor were seized from their central Baghdad home and taken hostage.
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(CBS/AP) Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a residence in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood housing many embassies and foreign companies.
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Iraqi police and U.S. forces have captured two militants suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad earlier this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a residence in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood housing many embassies and foreign companies.    The three, all employees of Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col...
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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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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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Militants piled more pressure on the United States&#39; military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid yesterday on an Al Qaeda hide-out north of Baghdad, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said today, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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Two Americans and a Briton are the latest foreigners to be abducted in Iraq. How should their governments respond?
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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.