Marines save Syrian hostage
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- A Syrian found handcuffed in Fallujah and rescued by US Marines was kidnapped with two French journalists in August, and has told authorities he last saw the Frenchmen a month ago -- the first confirmed word on the captives since they disappeared in August.
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U.S. troops have recovered personal effects of a U.S. Marine who was once feared beheaded by Iraqi insurgents after disappearing from his unit, U.S. officials said.
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Two men are believed to be in custody in Iraq and the US military claims they&#39;re top al-Qaida figures. The marines say the two worked closely with suspected terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Anbar province.
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U.S. troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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The U.S. military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim government's efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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A CANADIAN woman who had been kidnapped in Iraq was freed by a US National Guard unit late yesterday after 16 days in captivity, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told CTV television today.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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A Canadian submarine, which sent a distress signal out yesterday, is now being rescued by the UK&#39;s Royal Navy and isn&#39;t at risk, a spokeswoman for the British Ministry of Defense, who
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The US military has freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a gesture that could help the interim government&#39;s efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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US troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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A battered hostage, his wrists and ankles shackled to a wall, has been rescued by U.S. Marines moving through Fallujah, military officials said today, providing further evidence that the rebel-held city was being used as a hideout for kidnappers.
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A Syrian man believed to have been the driver captured along with two French journalists by militants in August has been found in Fallujah, Marine officials said this morning.
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Aides to a top Shi&#39;ite cleric in Iraq say 18 captive Iraqi soldiers have been freed by kidnappers who had threatened to kill them.
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A Syrian man believed to have been captured along with two French journalists by militants in August was found in Fallujah, Marine officials said Friday.
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An unidentified Australian journalist was held hostage in Iraq for 24 hours at the weekend before being released unharmed, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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A Turkish man taken hostage in Iraq has been freed, according to a videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News on Wednesday.