Iraqi police missing, Qaeda claims kidnapping
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Fourteen Iraqi police officers have gone missing and an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said had been kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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A lieutenant of Iraq's most feared insurgent leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was captured this week, the country's national security minister said Thursday.
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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More than 60 Iraqi policemen were kidnapped by unknown gunmen after the officers finished a training course in Jordan, said Iraqi police.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Gunmen kidnapped 15 Iraqi National  Guards on Friday after ambushing their convoy on a desert road  in the restive west of the country, an officer said.
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Four Iraqi military officers are being held over the kidnapping this week of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.
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Dozens of people are abducted in central Baghdad by armed men dressed in military uniforms, police say.
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A senior leader of an al Qaeda-linked group has been arrested in Iraq, state television Iraqiya said on Friday.
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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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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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Suspected militants have kidnapped an  Iraqi intelligence officer in response to the fighting in the  holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 -- Gunmen stopped a minibus driving north of Baghdad on Monday and abducted 13 Iraqi civilians inside, Iraqi police reported. The mass kidnapping was a renewed tactic that has grown increasingly rare as violence has ebbed in Iraq.
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Efforts are under way to locate two CBS journalists missing, feared kidnapped, in the Iraqi city of Basra.
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At least 11 al-Qaeda suspects held by the US Central Intelligence Agency have disappeared in custody as they are detained at unknown sites without access to the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch said in an e-mailed report.
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Iraqi authroties say they have arrested the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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THE group of al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed today it had kidnapped three relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and explained why it decided to release them, an Internet statement said.
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The bodies of 14 policemen were found Friday northeast of Baghdad after an al-Qaida-affilated Sunni group said it abducted members of a government security force in retaliation for the rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police.