US 'will not free' Iraq scientist
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The US denies that a female prisoner in Iraq is to be freed, as a British hostage's family awaits news of his fate.
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A jailed Indonesian cleric refused to be freed in exchange for two hostages held in Iraq, claiming that kidnapping and holding fellow Muslims is not permitted in Islam.
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Baghdad: There are conflicting reports as to whether two female scientists held by the US in Iraq are to be freed. Militants are threatening to kill a third hostage unless all Iraqi women in US-run prisons are freed.
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BAGHDAD, September 23 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Casting doubts on who calls the shots in war-ravaged Iraq, conflicting statements issued by the interim government and US authorities on the release of a detained Iraqi female scientist settled
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BAGHDAD  - The US military in Iraq denied that ousted president Saddam Hussein , captured a year ago and awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, was on hunger strike in his secret American detention centre.
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A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Messages follow American's beheading BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the ...
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Reports suggest an Iraqi woman scientist may be freed, as militants reportedly kill a second US hostage.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a day of conflicting statements, Iraqi authorities first said, then denied they had captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member still at large from Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted regime.
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The brother of a British hostage being held in Iraq accused the United States on Thursday of sabotaging efforts to spare the man&#39;s life.
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The United States indicated Wednesday it will not free jailed militants to secure the release of three UN election workers in Afghanistan, even as the kidnappers claimed a deal was close.
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Britain says it will not bargain with Iraqi militants holding a UK man, after he made a video plea to Tony Blair.
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Italian military officials denied reports that they had kicked out of their base in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah an American journalist who was kidnapped at the weekend while reporting on archaeological sites in the area.
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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq's leader and U.S. officials crushed reports that a high-profile female Iraqi weapons scientist could be released from jail soon &#151; as demanded by the kidnappers.
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Two high-profile women prisoners in American custody will not be released immediately, the US embassy said in Baghdad, despite an earlier announcement by Iraqi authorities.
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BAGHDAD Two Iraqi officials said Wednesday that the government was planning to release one of two female scientists being held prisoner, accused of working on Saddam Hussein&#39;s chemical weapons program.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly Wednesday to squelch the idea a top female germ-warfare scientist for Saddam Hussein would be freed soon, after a senior Iraqi official said the decision had been made to release her...