BAGHDAD, June 25 (UPI) -- Iraqi security Saturday arrested the head of the al-Qaida affiliated Ansar al-Sunna, leader Hilal Hussein al-Badrani, authorities said.

BRASILIA, Brazil, April 15 (UPI) -- Brazil's Foreign Ministry said Friday it would not comment on reports a Brazilian engineer abducted in Iraq is dead.

AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Jordanian authorities Wednesday denied reports they had information about a Brazilian engineer who was abducted in Iraq last month.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The Middle East's al Arabiya TV has begun running a video clip of Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo appealling to the captors of a Brazilian engineer in Iraq.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo appealed in a videotaped message Wednesday for the release of a Brazilian engineer captured in northern Iraq.

BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked Syrian President Bashar Assad for assistance in freeing a Brazilian engineer abducted in Iraq.

BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht Industrial Group said Monday it has yet to receive word on am employee abducted in Iraq.

BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Brazilian engineer has been abducted in northern Iraq, Arab news station Al Jazeera reported Saturday.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The suicide bomber who attacked a U.S. military mess hall in Iraq was a Saudi medical student, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.