KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AFP) – The Taliban has kidnapped two Chinese engineers and four Afghans accompanying them in the north of the country, a local official and the Taliban said on Sunday.
Nouakchott, 8 Dec. (AKI) – Al-Qaeda’s North African branch on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping last month of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a French citizen in Mali. The Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb’s spokesman Salah Abu Muhammad made the announcement in an audio tape aired by Arabic satellite TV network, Al-Jazeera.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped while delivering supplies to impoverished villages in the desert West African nation of Mauritania, their organization said Monday.
BAMAKO — Armed men have kidnapped a French national in the northern Malian town of Menaka close to the border with Niger, officials said Thursday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A forensics team has found the remains of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Lebanon 24 years ago, the British embassy said on Monday.
A body recovered in Lebanon could be that of British journalist Alec Collett, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago.
