2 Germans kidnapped in Afghanistan
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Armed men kidnapped two Germans and two Afghans working on a dam project in central Afghanistan, police said Thursday.
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Afghanistan has detained two foreign nationals, who local news portals described as "European", for posing a threat to national security, a presidential palace official said on Tuesday.
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Two Italian soldiers kidnapped in Afghanistan were freed on Monday during a raid by NATO-led troops, Italian officials said.
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US-LED and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants during an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said today.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement threatened to kill two German hostages if its demands were not met by 07:30 GMT on Saturday, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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The two hostages are said to be a woman and her son A militant Islamist group in Iraq which says it has two German hostages has threaten to kill them if Berlin does not pull its troops from Afghanistan.Comment
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KABUL: US-led and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants in an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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The Taliban kidnapped two Pakistani journalists in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the militant group and a wife of one of the missing men said Friday. The Taliban said the men were safe and would released soon.
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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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Two foreign employees of the  Red Cross are abducted in Wardak province in southern Afghanistan, police say.
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Iraqi militants holding a German woman and her son hostage demanded Saturday that Germany withdraw its troops from Afghanistan to ensure their safety.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement on Saturday killed two German hostages after the group's demands were ignored, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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Two Italian soldiers kidnapped in Afghanistan have been freed during a raid by NATO-led troops. The soldiers were wounded during the raid to free them and were taken to the hospital. NATO officials said at least eight of the suspected kidnappers were killed in the raid. The two soldiers had gone missing in the western province of Herat on Saturday with their Afghan interpreter and driver. Italy has around 2,0 00 troops in Afghanistan. More than 600 are in western Afghanistan running the regional NATO-led command.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government sources and election commission officials said.
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them both, Afghan officials said.