More Than 135 Foreigners Kidnapped in Iraq
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 135 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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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 in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday and the new U.S. operational commander said more needed to be done to curb violence in the Iraqi capital.
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DOZENS of people, many of them women and children, were killed or wounded in attacks across Iraq overnight amid reports that more than 60 Iraqi policemen have been kidnapped.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have again taken several foreigners hostage, this time workers trying to rebuild the country&#39;s telecommunications infrastructure.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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Prime Minister John Howard's government said Wednesday it had tracked down all 225 of its citizens known to be in Iraq, raising hopes that a claim by militants who said they'd kidnapped two Australians was untrue.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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At least four foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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BAGHDAD, Nov 2  - An American, Filipino and Nepalese and at least one Iraqi working for a Saudi company were among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their compounds.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
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The hostage crisis in Iraq has worsened with gunmen kidnapping two Italian women aid workers and two Iraqis from their offices in Baghdad.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Several Westerners, including four Britons, are reportedly kidnapped from a finance ministry building in Baghdad.
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THE KIDNAPPING and murder of foreigners in Iraq is continuing. Many of those kidnapped have been engineers or other support workers for the coalition forces.