Iraq
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We should not have left Iraq: Donald Trump on fight with ISIS
World | Mar 21, 2017, 12:56 PM ISTUS President Donald Trump has questioned the decision of his predecessors to first send the American troops to Iraq and then withdraw them, while assuring support to the war torn country to maintain stability.
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Trump's ISIS plan looks much like Obama's: Officials
World | Mar 18, 2017, 11:04 AM ISTThe Pentagon has given US President Donald Trump a ‘secret’ plan to defeat the terror group ISIS. According to senior officials who reviewed the document, the plan was little more than an ‘intensification’ of what the Obama administration had.
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Islamic State-held Mosul completely surrounded, terrorists 'trapped'
World | Mar 13, 2017, 08:14 AM ISTIslamic State terrorists are completely trapped as the remaining western neighborhoods of the city held by the terror group are now completely surrounded, a senior coalition official said.
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In 'farewell speech', ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi acknowledges defeat in Iraq
World | Mar 02, 2017, 11:22 AM ISTThe ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has acknowledged the group's defeat in Iraq in a 'farewell speech' and ordered his non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, according to media reports.
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Donald Trump’s new order to drop Iraq from travel ban
World | Mar 01, 2017, 11:49 PM ISTUS President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban, officials said. A White House official who has seen the latest version
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Revised Trump order on travel ban exempts Iraq from list: Officials
World | Mar 01, 2017, 10:39 AM ISTPresident Donald Trump's new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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Iraqi forces regain control of Mosul airport from ISIS
World | Feb 24, 2017, 01:30 PM ISTIraqi forces closely supported by the US-led international coalition have seized control of the airport in the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants.
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No plan to seize Iraqi oil, says US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
World | Feb 20, 2017, 01:46 PM ISTUS Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said that Washington does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by President Donald Trump that has rattled Iraq's leaders.
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Islamic State group's 'business model' near collapse: Report
World | Feb 18, 2017, 09:11 AM ISTThe Islamic State group is haemorrhaging money with every piece of territory it loses, according to a new analysis that found that the group's "business model" is on the path to failure.
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India topped list of bombings in 2016, surpasses Iraq, Afghanistan: NSG body
India | Feb 15, 2017, 02:09 PM ISTHaving witnessed the maximum bombings in the world in 2016, India topped the list countries reporting the highest number of explosions, even more than war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a report by the National
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Trump to ask Pentagon to strike ISIS aggressively in Iraq, Syria
World | Jan 27, 2017, 09:25 AM ISTUS President Donald Trump, who is to make his first visit to the Pentagon as Commander in Chief on Friday, is expected to ask Defense Secretary James N Mattis for ways to accelerate the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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Islamic State stronghold in Mosul weakening, says Pentagon
World | Jan 10, 2017, 11:05 AM ISTThe Pentagon has announced that the stronghold of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Iraqi city of Mosul is weakening.
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30 killed in suicide car bomb attacks in Iraq
World | Dec 23, 2016, 08:35 AM ISTAt least 30 people were killed and dozens injured when three suicide car bombs exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, security sources said.
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ISIS offers $1 million reward for head of jailed Kurdish woman who fought them in Syria
World | Dec 20, 2016, 01:19 PM ISTISIS has offered a $1 million (approx Rs 6.8 crore) reward for the killing of a Kurdish-Danish woman who dropped out of university in 2014 to fight the terror group in Syria and Iraq.
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54 civilians killed in US-led airstrikes in Iraq, Syria since March
World | Dec 02, 2016, 12:59 PM ISTThe US-led coalition has confirmed that 54 civilians in Iraq and Syria were killed between March 31 and October 22 while carrying out airstrikes against terror group Islamic State.
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Iraqi troops capture three more neighborhoods from ISIS in eastern Mosul
World | Nov 24, 2016, 06:09 PM ISTOver a month after a major operation was launched against Islamic State militants, the Iraqi security forces on Thursday captured three more neighbourhoods from the terror group in eastern Mosul.
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ISIS kills over 60 civilians in Mosul, victims marked ‘traitors’: Report
World | Nov 12, 2016, 11:18 AM ISTTerror group Islamic State has shot dead more than 60 people this week and hung some of their bodies from poles after alleging they had collaborated with Iraqi troops.
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Most Indian youngsters who joined terror outfit ISIS are based in Raqqa: Report
India | Nov 05, 2016, 02:28 PM ISTIslamic State suspect Subahani Haja Moideen has revealed that most youngsters from India who have joined the terror group are based in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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Iraqi forces corner ISIS chief al-Baghdadi in Mosul, gear up for final assault: Report
World | Nov 02, 2016, 06:51 PM ISTAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of Islamic State has been trapped by Iraqi Army in Mosul, a report claimed today.
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Iraqi forces find bomb factory, tunnels on long road to Mosul
World | Oct 29, 2016, 08:00 AM ISTIraqi forces, fighting against Islamic States militant to recapture Mosul, have explored a network of tunnels and uncovered a bomb-making facility in a village near Mosul.