Friends and family of Norman Kember have told of their relief after the Briton and two Canadian hostages were freed in Iraq.

AFP - Norman Kember, the kidnapped Briton freed in Iraq with two Canadian colleagues after four months in captivity, is in "good spirits" and relaxing at the British Embassy, an embassy spokeswoman said.

A Briton and two Canadian Christian aid workers held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed apparently unharmed with no shots fired. Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were rescued in a special forces operation -- though their captors were not present at the time, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Their American colleague, Tom Fox, was found dead March 9 in western Baghdad.

A Briton and two Canadian Christian aid workers held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed apparently unharmed with no shots fired. Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were rescued in a special forces operation -- though their captors were not present at the time, CNN's Nic Robertson reports. Their American colleague, Tom Fox, was found dead March 9 in western Baghdad.

Three Christian aid workers -- a Briton and two Canadians -- held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in a multinational military operation in Baghdad, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today. Freed were Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden. Their American colleague, Tom Fox, was found dead March 9 in western Baghdad.

Three Christian aid workers -- a Briton and two Canadians -- held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in a multinational military operation in Baghdad involving British special forces, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today. Freed were Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden. Their American colleague, Tom Fox, was found dead March 9 in western Baghdad.

Reuters - U.S.-led forces freed three Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday in an operation mounted two weeks after the kidnappers tortured and killed their American colleague.

Three Christian aid workers -- a Briton and two Canadians -- held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed in a multinational military operation in Baghdad involving British special forces, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today. Freed were Briton Norman Kember, 74, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32. Relatives and friends who had prayed for the men's release greeted the news with joy.

Three Christian aid workers -- a Briton and two Canadians -- held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed. Briton Norman Kember, 74, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were freed in a multinational military operation in Baghdad involving British special forces, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today. Relatives and friends who had prayed for the men's release greeted the news with joy.

AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces freed one British and two Canadian hostages early Thursday in a military operation, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street.

AFP - Three Western aid workers held hostage in Iraq for four months were freed, two weeks after one of their colleagues was killed by their captors, the US military said.

Three car bombs exploded in central Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least seven Baghdad police officers and wounding several others including a member of a Shiite funeral procession, Iraqi police said.

AP - A Briton and two Canadians held hostage in Iraq for almost four months have been freed, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday.

One British and two Canadian peace activists are freed in Iraq in an operation by multinational troops.

Reuters - Three Western Christian aid workers have been freed in Iraq, the British embassy said on Thursday.

AFP - Three western aid workers held hostage in Iraq were freed, US Colonel John Snow told AFP.

An inquiry finds failures in the treatment of a man who killed when freed from a psychiatric hospital.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN)—Insurgents have stormed a jail around dawn in the Sunni Muslim heartland Muqdadiyah, killing 19 police and a courthouse guard in a daring prison break that freed dozens of prisoners and left 10 attackers dead. According to the Associated...

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN)—Authorities say insurgents stormed a jail around dawn in the Sunni Muslim heartland Muqdadiyah, killing 19 police and a courthouse guard in a daring prison break that freed dozens of prisoners and left 10 attackers dead. According to the...

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN)—Authorities say insurgents stormed a jail around dawn in the Sunni Muslim heartland Muqdadiyah, killing 19 police and a courthouse guard in a daring prison break that freed dozens of prisoners and left 10 attackers dead. According to the...