VOA News May 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Unknown gunmen have killed a German aid worker and her Afghan security guard in Kabul before kidnapping a Finnish woman who worked for an aid organization. A Finnish Foreign Ministry spokesperson is reported to have confirmed a Finn has been taken hostage, and that there is no information yet
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 15, 2017 An Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan last year has been released, according to an Afghan official and the Australian government. The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was kidnapped in Kabul in November. Mohammad Salim Almas, the head of criminal investigations in Kabul, said the woman
Ayaz Gul / VOA News February 18, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, called Saturday for the safe and unconditional release of two staff members abducted in northern Afghanistan earlier this month. The abductees were part of an ICRC convoy transporting food for livestock of poverty-stricken farmers in the northern Jowzjan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 15, 2017 The International Committee of the Red Cross says a Spanish staff member who was abducted in northern Afghanistan last month has been released. Juan Carlos was kidnapped on December 19 when workers from the group were traveling between Mazar-e Sharif and Kunduz. The ICRC’s head of delegation in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 11, 2017 The Afghan Taliban has released a video showing an American and an Australian who were kidnapped in August. The two men, identified as Kevin King and Timothy Weekes, were abducted near the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, where they worked as teachers. In the video sent to
Tehran Times: An Iranian national abducted last Tuesday in the western Afghan province of Herat has been released and handed over to Iran’s Consulate in the province, an official with the Iranian consulate told Pajhwok Afghan News on Monday. Javad Mohammadi had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen after having been stopped on the Herat-Islam-Qala Highway, via
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — An Afghan Taliban official said Wednesday that it released the video of a kidnapped American-Canadian couple and their two children to renew attention on their detention and press their governments to meet the group’s demands. The video surfaced on Monday, showing American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 20, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A search operation is underway in Afghanistan to recover a kidnapped foreigner working for the International Committee of the Red Cross, provincial authorities said. Several staff members were traveling in two vehicles to the restive northern Kunduz province on Monday when unknown gunmen intercepted them, according to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 6, 2016 Australia’s government says it is trying to confirm reports that one of its nationals has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, the latest in a series of reported abductions involving foreign aid workers. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra said on November 6 that the Australian embassy
Press TV September 9, 2016 The United States military has admitted to its failure in rescuing two universality professors held hostage in Afghanistan. Two professors at the American University — an American and an Australian — were kidnapped in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul last month. “In August, at the recommendation of Secretary