Journalist purportedly kidnapped by militants
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A group calling itself &quot;The Islamic Army in Iraq&quot; said Italy must withdraw its 3,000 troops -- or the safety of a missing Italian journalist can&#39;t be guaranteed.
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Radical militants on Tuesday kidnapped one man who they claimed to be Japanese and demanded the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq.
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Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him âGoogledâ his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalistâs executive producer said today.
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The Taliban in Afghanistan claimed Tuesday to have captured a Briton working for an Italian newspaper, which said one of its correspondents was missing.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Gunmen in Somalia's northern Puntland region kidnapped a French journalist on Sunday, the area's deputy governor said.
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SYDNEY -- Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him Googled his name on the Internet to investigate his work before deciding to release him unharmed, the journalist's executive producer said yesterday.
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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 group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped a CNN employee in Gaza City, CNN and witnesses said. His abductors blocked a taxi carrying several members of the CNN staff in the center of
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A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Monday by unknown assailants, Palestinian security officials said.
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Spokesman of group claiming to hold BBC Gaza correspondent is detained, according to reports.
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An Islamist militant group in Iraq  claimed responsibility for kidnapping an Italian journalist and  threatened to kill her by Monday, following an earlier kidnap  claim, according to an Internet statement.
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A spokesman for the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBCâs Gaza reporter was arrested, as were two others.
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NEWTON -- A French journalist with a US passport and family ties to the Boston area has been kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, his friends and associates said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD -- A militant group said it has kidnapped a missing Western journalist with Boston-area ties and would kill him if US forces did not leave the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf within 48 hours, Al-Jazeera reported yesterday.
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A French journalist, Gwen Le Gouil, is abducted in northern Somalia by unidentified gunmen.
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Iraqi militant group has announced it is holding two missing French journalists, according to al-Jazeera.
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The Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters who have been missing since Aug. 20 today demanded a $5 million ransom as a condition for their release, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.