... cars in Baghdad. Thirteen bystanders were injured when the cars burst into flames at the scene. Meanwhile, Iraqi and U.S. troops found and released hostage Douglas Wood, 64, who had been held for 47 days in Baghdad. Wood, an Australian engineer from Alamo, Calif., said he was "extremely happy ...
... Press. Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces raided Madain, a small farming town south of Baghdad, Monday but found little evidence that 150 Shiites were being held hostage as Shiite politicians had earlier reported. The politicians had said Sunni militants were threatening to kill the hostages unless the entire Shiite population left ...
... which stopped the vehicle, killing one and wounding two others." Sgrena, who worked for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, spent more than a month held hostage by insurgents in Iraq. She was last seen on Feb. 16 pleading with Italian leaders to pull their troops out of Iraq so she ...
An American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards were abducted at gunpoint from their Baghdad office Monday, following a weekend of violence that left dozens of Iraqis and U.S. Marines dead in separate explosions.
... recruits and it's also a way of making the Jihadi groups much more important. So, for instance, on the Web site where the British hostage, this group it's called Tawhid with Jihad -- this group that kidnapped the two Americans and the Brit, on their Web site, they state ...
... the security needs of the Iraqi people." The announcement came as kidnapping and other incidents of violence continued in the country. Hensley had been taken hostage along with Eugene Armstrong, an American who was killed earlier this week, and British hostage Kenneth Bigley, whom militants have threatened to kill if ...
... by an escape bid by a group of young hostages. So did Russian special forces initiate the assault, or were they reacting to something the hostage-takers did? It's a critical question given that just hours earlier, President Vladimir Putin had said the safety of the hostages was paramount ...
... 24 insurgents who stormed the school Wednesday morning just after opening day ceremonies that included parents, teachers and students. The militants herded more than 350 hostages into the school's gymnasium and placed a sniper on every floor of the school to keep guard. Leonid Roshal, a prominent pediatrician who ...
... start of a new school year. The large celebration draws parents, teachers and students to the school for its first day. The exact number of hostages remains unclear -- estimates ranged from 132 to nearly 400 --reflecting the confusion surrounding the situation. "I was standing near the gates, music was playing ...
... major attack in the capital since the interim Iraqi government took over from U.S.-led occupiers on June 28. Meanwhile, a Filipino man taken hostage in Iraq told his family in a videotaped message he would be returning home after the Philippines agreed to withdraw its small military contingent ...
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