Two hostages threatened with death in Iraq

Iraqi militants are threatening to kill a Turkish hostage if his company does not withdraw from Iraq within three days, private NTV television reported in Istanbul.

Meanwhile, a militant group calling itself the Martyrs Brigade says it had kidnapped a missing journalist in Iraq and would kill him if US forces did not leave the holy city of Najaf within 48 hours, the pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported.