Islamic militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt on Wednesday after holding them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a dozen other foreigners still in captivity.
U.S. warplanes struck at the city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, late on Wednesday in what the American military called a precision attack on safe houses used by associates of al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Iraqi medical sources said at least eight people were killed.
It was the fate of hostages that dominated diplomacy.
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