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| Feb.27 |
London |
PM Brown: Hostage video deplorable
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| Dec.24 |
Kashmir |
Mosque besieged A standoff in village of Palnu is continuing with three militants holding a pair of hostages. Indian security forces are outside the mosque
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| Aug.18 |
Kabul |
German woman kidnapped A woman has been kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of the capital. She works for an international aid organisation
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| Jul.29 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: Hostages will die Monday Taliban spokesman said their fighters would kill 22 remaining South Korean hostages if the Afghan government did not release rebel prisoners
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| Jul.22 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban extend deadline for hostages
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| Jul.21 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: 2 German hostages killed The Afghan Foreign Ministry said one is still alive and the other died of a heart attack
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| Jul.20 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban threaten abducted South Koreans| The militants threatened to kill a group of abducted Christians within 24 hours unless S. Korea withdraws its troops from Afghanistan | | |
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Three-year-old seized
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| Jun.28 |
Colombia |
11 lawmaker hostages killed |
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| May.29 |
Baghdad |
Five Britons seized 
| 4 bodyguards and a finance expert have been kidnapped from Iraq's finance ministry. The kidnappers wore police uniforms | |
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| May.27 |
Gaza |
Official: BBC reporter alive |
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| May.25 |
Nigeria |
Foreigners seized |
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Gunmen seize bus
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| Mar.10 |
Iraq |
Kidnapping in Iraq aimed at Germans Militants holding a woman and her son hostage demanded that Germany withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
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| Feb.8 |
Nigeria |
Militants hold more hostages
MEND, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is holding 24 Filipino hostages
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| Dec.14 |
Baghdad |
Gunmen in uniforms kidnap 20-30 Armed men in outdated National Police uniforms arrived in 10 vehicles and rounded up shop owners, street vendors
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| Nov.19 |
Baghdad |
Iraq's deputy health minister kidnapped
At least 24 gunmen stormed the house of Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him
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| Nov.18 |
Baghdad |
Video emerges in hunt for hostages |
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| Nov.17 |
Southern Iraq |
Contractors abducted |
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| Nov.14 |
Baghdad |
Gunmen grab up to 100 from institute 
The minister of higher education ordered universities closed until security improves
| 80 gunmen were clad in Iraqi National Police uniforms and targeted the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research-Scholarships and Cultural Relations Directorate building. The directorate had a guard force of about 20 -- not enough to resist the abductors
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| Nov.11 |
Iraq |
Sunnis kill 10 Shiites, kidnap 50 others |
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| Oct.22 |
Iraq |
Iraqi police recruits killed, kidnapped
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| Oct.15 |
Rome |
Reporter seized in Afghanistan |
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| Sep.21 |
Iraq |
Kidnap victims used as bombers |
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Girl 'found' after years
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Gaza |
Abduction claim of Fox News journalists The Holy Jihad Brigades called for the release of Arabs from U.S. jails
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| Jul.31 |
Baghdad |
Gunmen kidnap 25 people
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| Jul.12 |
Iraq |
20 bodies found after abductions |
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Hezbollah kidnapping prompts Israeli move
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| Jul.4 |
Baghdad |
Minister's convoy snatched
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| Jul.3 |
Gaza |
Militants' deadline expires A deadline set by Palestinians holding an Israeli soldier has passed without news of his condition
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| Jun.25 |
Iraq |
Al Qaeda group killed 4 Russian hostages| The statement, video on a Web site: the Mujahedeen Shura Council had beheaded 3 of the men and shot 1 to death.
On June 3 a car came under fire; Russian Embassy official Vitaly Titov in the attack, and diplomats Fyodor Zaitsev, Rinat Agliuglin, Anatoly Smirnov and O... | |
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| Jun.21 |
Iraq |
50 workers snatched in bus hijacking |
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Insurgents captured U.S. soldiers
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| Jun.5 |
Baghdad |
Police impostors kidnap 50
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| Jun.3 |
Baghdad |
Russian diplomats ambushed
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| Apr.30 |
Afghanistan |
Indian hostage killed |
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| Apr.9 |
Iraq |
New video shows German hostages |
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| Mar.14 |
Nigeria |
U.S. hostage fears for life |
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| Mar.10 |
Iraq |
FBI: Body of U.S. hostage found| The body of Tom Fox, a Christian peace advocate, has been found | |
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| Feb.18 |
Nigeria |
9 abducted in Niger delta |
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Abducted journalist makes new plea on TV
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Gaza |
Egyptian diplomat abducted |
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| Jan.31 |
Iraq |
Threats in new German hostage tape |
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| Jan.22 |
Iraq |
Many abducted Iraqis found dead
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| Jan.21 |
Colombia |
Captive Colombians in Chavez plea |
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| Jan.17 |
Baghdad |
Journalist's kidnappers make demands The kidnappers who abducted Jill Carroll, 28, demanded that the U.S. release all female Iraqi prisoners in 72 hours
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| Dec.29 |
Iraq |
Shias abducted and killed
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| Dec.28 |
Iraq |
French hostage threatened in video |
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Yemen |
German diplomat, family missing |
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| Dec.24 |
Iraq |
Video shows Jordanian hostage |
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| Dec.16 |
Ethiopia |
UK aid workers held |
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| Dec.10 |
Iraq |
Deadline passes; no word on hostages
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| Dec.2 |
Iraq |
Kidnappers threaten to kill peace activists |
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| Nov.29 |
Iraq |
Video airs of purported hostages Al-Jazeera broadcast a video issued by an unknown group showing what it claimed were 4 hostages
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| Oct.25 |
Darfur |
Aid workers 'kidnapped' |
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| Oct.9 |
Darfur |
AU peacekeepers seized
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| Jul.21 |
Baghdad |
Algerian diplomats kidnapped 2 diplomats were abducted outside a restaurant in Mansour neighborhood
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| Jul.3 |
Baghdad |
Egypt ambassador to Iraq kidnapped Ihab al-Sherif, the first to represent an Arab country in post-war Iraq, was abducted near his home
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| Jun.19 |
Australia |
Ex-hostage Wood 'feared for life' |
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Italy hostage released in Kabul
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| May.10 |
Greece |
Athens anarchists release hostages
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| May.9 |
Iraq |
Japan vows firm stand on kidnap |
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| May.1 |
Australia |
Australia: No hostage negotiations
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| Apr.14 |
Iraq |
Pakistani hostage appears on video
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| Apr.13 |
Iraq |
Video shows U.S. hostage |
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| Apr.10 |
Pakistan |
Pakistan appeals for envoy's release An Iraqi group has claimed to have kidnapped a diplomat Malik Mohammad Javaid
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| Feb.16 |
Iraq |
Italian hostage pleads for her life |
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| Feb.6 |
Baghdad |
4 Egyptians taken hostage
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| Feb.4 |
Baghdad |
Italian journalist abducted
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| Jan.15 |
Baghdad |
Daughter of Iraqi official kidnapped |
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| Dec.25 |
Iraq |
Turkey ship owner held hostage |
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| Dec.21 |
Iraq |
French journalists freed |
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| Nov.10 |
Baghdad |
PM's relatives kidnapped |
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| Nov.2 |
Baghdad |
American contractor snatched |
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Iraq |
Captors threaten Hassan handover |
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| Nov.1 |
Iraq |
Six kidnapped in Baghdad
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| Oct.31 |
Afghanistan |
Video shows UN hostages
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| Oct.30 |
Baghdad |
Beheaded Japanese hostage found |
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| Oct.28 |
Kabul |
Foreign poll staff held in Kabul
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| Oct.27 |
Iraq |
Abducted aid worker seen in video
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| Oct.22 |
Iraq |
CARE worker pleads for her life |
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Agency halts aid projects after kidnap
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| Sep.27 |
Iraq |
Kidnapped Iranian diplomat freed Fereidoun Jahani, who was kidnapped in Iraq in early August, arrived at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad
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Six Egyptians taken
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| Sep.22 |
Iraq |
British hostage pleads for life on video
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| Sep.18 |
Iraq |
Group threatens to kill hostages
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| Sep.15 |
Iraq |
Turkish hostage freed |
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| Sep.2 |
North Caucasus |
School siege: '26 freed'
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Standoff school siege
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Iraq |
Employer: 7 hostages released |
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| Aug.29 |
Iraq |
End Headscarf Ban, Hostage Takers Warn |
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| Aug.8 |
Iraq |
Iranian consul abducted
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| Aug.4 |
Sunni Triangle |
Jordanian hostages freed |
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| Jul.24 |
Iraq |
Kidnapping, attempted killing in Baghdad |
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| Jul.23 |
Iraq |
Militants take Egyptian diplomat hostage Militants displayed on videotape 8 hostages -- 7 truck drivers and the third-highest Egyptian diplomat in Iraq
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| Jul.16 |
Gaza |
Group frees French hostages |
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| Jul.15 |
Iraq |
Egyptian hostage in Iraq faces deadline |
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| Jun.26 |
Iraq |
3 Turks 'face beheading'
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| Jun.15 |
Saudi Arabia |
Kidnapped American threatened in video
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| Jun.12 |
Saudi Arabia |
Militants claim American kidnapped |
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| May.29 |
Saudi Arabia |
50 foreigners held hostage Security forces have surrounded an oil company housing compound in the city of Khobar. The gunmen killed 16 people
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| Apr.14 |
Iraq |
Italian hostage is killed |
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Japanese, Koreans taken hostage
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| Dec.15 |
North Caucasus |
Chechen fighters 'seize hostages' |
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14 European hostages released
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| Apr.21 |
Colombia |
Gunmen kidnap 8 people in island raid |
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| Aug.20 |
Philippines |
8 kidnapped on Jolo |
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Hostages at Iraqi embassy
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| Nov.26 |
Southern Philippines |
Hostage crisis
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| Nov.15 |
Philippines |
7 Abu Sayyaf hostages freed |
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| May.26 |
Philippines |
Raiders nab 20 at resort |
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| Apr.22 |
Istanbul |
Gunmen took 100 hostages |
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Elian reunited with father