Taliban Says Women as Hostages Is Against Islam
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban guerrillas reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of three UN workers and said they opposed the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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UN push to stop expulsions after Kabul government accuses EU and UN officials of meeting Taliban
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Hardline religious students in Islamabad abduct a group of people, including women, accusing them of prostitution.
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A purported spokesman for the Taliban said Friday that the militant group had beheaded four Afghans it accused of spying for U.S.-led forces.
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Some South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan reported being beaten by their Taliban captors for refusing to convert to Islam or for protecting female captives, a hospital chief said Monday.
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Afghanistan's Taliban has demanded that Pope Benedict XVI apologise for remarks linking Islam with violence, adding the comment showed the Christian West was waging war against Muslims.
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Pair deported after Kabul government denounces them for 'negotiating' with Taliban
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped three foreign election workers in Afghanistan told news agencies Saturday that the hostages would be killed unless all Taliban
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Authorities insisted they won&#39;t give in to militants&#39; demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed
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A Taliban splinter group holding three U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from the Afghan government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon, saying it would kill one captive if they were not met.
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A HARDLINE faction of the Taliban that claims to be holding Annetta Flanigan, a hostage from Northern Ireland, has threatened to kill her and two other captives if British troops do not pull out of Afghanistan, writes Tom Coghlan in Kabul.
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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A Pakistani minister says Islamist radicals are holding women and children hostage in a besieged mosque.
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The Taliban had threatened to kill 23 South Korean hostages unless an equal number of Taliban fighters were released.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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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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Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped United Nations workers, including a British woman, are demanding the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly held at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostagesâ lives.