Filipino confirmed kidnapped in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Filipino working for a Saudi company was among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s office confirmed today that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.
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The Philippine military is verifying reports that Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group leader Khadaffy Janjalani was killed in an aerial assault in the southern Philippines, a local television reported Monday.
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An Italian volunteer worker kidnapped earlier by an unidentified group in the southern Philippines has been released, the Philippine military said Wednesday.
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Nepal's foreign minister confirmed Monday that 12 Nepalese workers had been kidnapped in Iraq, while the Jordan-based services company that employed them said it was trying to determine their fate.
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Gunmen kidnapped a  Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing  Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the  anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate  incident.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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Philippine security forces have arrested one of the founding members of a radical Muslim group suspected of involvement in the country's worst terrorist attack, a marine spokesman said on Saturday.
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TROOPS killed a member of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnap gang and captured four others in a raid in this southern Philippine city, officials said today.
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A group of 24 Filipino hostages kidnapped more than three weeks ago have been freed, a spokesman for Baco-Liner, their employer, said Tuesday.
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo's government has issued a fresh warning to Filipino job-seekers trying to fly to Iraq despite a government ban.
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Two Filipino oil workers captured last week in restive southern Nigeria, have been released by their captors, a local government spokesman in the area told AFP.
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The CARE International charity reported that the director of itâs operations in Iraq was kidnapped early Tuesday in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, a British-Iraqi citizen, was kidnapped in Baghdad at 7:30 am, CARE
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TWO Arab nationals, a US citizen and an Asian, were kidnapped today from their offices in Baghdad. Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, an interior ministry spokesman, said militants struck in a well-off neighbourhood in central Baghdad.
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Two Filipino oil workers were kidnapped near the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta, officials said.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s office confirmed Monday that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.