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  Iraq crisis: Centre trying its best, Sushma tells Raje

  India | June 23, 2014 7:19 IST

  Jaipur: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today assured Rajsthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje that the Centre is trying its best to safely bring back the Indians stranded in strife-torn Iraq.  Swaraj talked to Raje on

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  Iraq militants playing a deadly game of life and death with Indian workers

  India | June 22, 2014 8:59 IST

  New Delhi: Indians who managed to escape from Iraq brought with them a horrific tale of Iraqi militants brutality. One of such lucky Indian who managed to flee Iraq revealed that the ISIS militants have

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  Iraq Crisis: ISIS may use Indian hostages as shields against military offensive

  India | June 22, 2014 8:18 IST

  New Delhi: The only person among the group of 40 to flee the captors in Iraq has told government officials that ISIS militants are planning to use the 39 Indian hostages as human shields in

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  Andhra Pradesh seeks safe passage of 61 people stranded in Iraq

  India | June 22, 2014 7:21 IST

  Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday requested the Centre to rescue 61 persons from the state who are currently stranded in strife-hit Iraq, and ensure their safe passage to their native places.Chief Minister N Chandrababu

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  Indians in captivity in Iraq unharmed: Government

  India | June 22, 2014 7:12 IST

  New Delhi: The Indians in captivity in Iraq are unharmed, the government said yesterday after establishing contact with the workers who were rounded up by suspected Sunni militants in Mosul town in the violence-hit Gulf

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  Iraq militia parades as insurgents seize crossing

  World | June 22, 2014 6:41 IST

  Baghdad: Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities today as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province.  The capture of

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  Free phone calls for families of Punjabis stranded in Iraq

  India | June 21, 2014 14:05 IST

  Chandigarh: The Punjab government Saturday announced it will foot the bill of phone calls made by family members of Indian men from the state who are stranded in strife-torn Iraq.A spokesperson of the Chief Minister's

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  We were sold for $400 in Iraq: hostage's brother

  India | June 21, 2014 9:00 IST

  Hoshiarpur (Punjab): The brother of a Punjabi youth taken hostage in Iraq by Sunni insurgents says that youths from northern India were sold to agents in the strife-torn country for just $400.Paramjit Singh, younger brother

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  Iraqi militants seize former chemical weapons factory

  World | June 20, 2014 13:49 IST

  Washington: Sunni radicals in Iraq, who have overrun a swathe of territory north of Baghdad in a lightning offensive, have taken control of one of Saddam Hussein's former chemical weapons factories, a US official has

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  Iraq Crises: 16 Indians evacuated, 1 of the 40 kidnapped escapes

  India | June 20, 2014 20:37 IST

  New Delhi: Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated and one of the 40 kidnapped Indians has escaped from captivity in Mosul town even as government said it was “knocking at

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  Iraq crisis: No panic yet but Indian oil companies asked to prepare contingency plan

  India | June 20, 2014 9:16 IST

  New Delhi: As the crisis in Iraq has put a cloud on supply from India's second-biggest source of crude oil, the government issued directions to state-run refineries on to prepare a contingency plan.Oil supply has

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  48 foreign captives released in Iraq, no news of Indians hostages

  World | June 20, 2014 9:26 IST

  Kirkuk/New Delhi:  Militants who have seized large swathes of territory while advancing towards Iraq's capital Baghdad have released 48 foreigners, including four Turks, held captive for several days. However, there is no news of the

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  Sonia Gandhi asks PM to 'act swiftly' on abducted Indians

  Politics | June 20, 2014 15:44 IST

  New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to intensify diplomatic efforts to secure the early release of the 40 Indians abducted in strife-torn Iraq.In her letter, Gandhi

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  Abducted Indians in Iraq safe, efforts on to free them

  India | June 20, 2014 6:52 IST

  New Delhi: India Thursday said the 40 Indian workers abducted in strife-torn Iraq are safe and told their distraught families that the "very best" efforts are going on to have them freed.External Affairs Minister Sushma

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  US won't return to combat role in Iraq: Obama

  World | June 20, 2014 8:02 IST

  Washington: Under pressure to come to the aid of the embattled Iraq government, President Barack Obama said the US is prepared to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, but won't be returning to

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  ISIS worse than wild animals, says Indian who returned from Iraq

  India | June 19, 2014 21:46 IST

  New Delhi: Few survivors from the violence-stricken land returned home and recounted his horiffic stay in the country.The ones who have returned say that the situation is dangerous even as they added that the Indians

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  Parkash Badal, families of abducted Indian workers in Iraq meet Sushma Swaraj

  Politics | June 20, 2014 15:40 IST

  New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal along with families of some of the Punjabi workers abducted in Iraq today met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and shared their concerns with her.The families of

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  Iraq crisis: Fate of 40 kidnapped Indians in Mosul unknown

  India | June 19, 2014 10:11 IST

  New Delhi: The fate of 40 Indian construction workers who have been abducted by suspected Islamic militants in Iraq remained unknown with the government unable to establish any contact with the captors belonging to brutal

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  Iraq Crisis: Militants control '75 percent' of country's largest oil refinery

  World | June 18, 2014 14:56 IST

  Baghdad: Islamic militants have taken control of most of Iraq's largest oil refinery, located in Baiji in northern Iraq, an official at the refinery said on Wednesday.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he

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  Know who are ISIS militants trying to occupy Iraq?

  World | November 15, 2014 10:40 IST

  New Delhi: ISIS militants are closing in on the capital city of Baghdad in Iraq. Gun battles are on in Baquba which is less than 40 miles north of Baghdad.Some say that the ISIS that