Melbourne: An Australian teenager who has been linked to a suicide bombing attack in Iraq, left improvised explosive devices (IED) at his family home in Melbourne before going to Syria, media reported on Thursday.Jake Bilardi's
Baghdad: Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen entered the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit on Wednesday, authorities said, breaching one of the biggest strongholds of the extremists in a key test for Iraqi forces.Explosions and heavy
Four pro-Islamic State activists, two from Maharashtra and one from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, have been arrested in the country in the last one year, Rajya Sabha was informed today.Minister of State for Home Haribhai
Baghdad : Islamic State extremists trucked away statues as they damaged the irreplaceable remains of an ancient Assyrian capital, a local resident and a top UN official told The Associated Press Friday.Nimrud, a nearly 3,000-year-old
Baghdad: Iraqi troops fought on Tuesday with Islamic State extremists south of the militant-held city of Tikrit but their offensive to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown was slowed by roadside bombs, local officials said.Backed by Iranian-backed
Baghdad: The U.N. mission to Iraq says violence in the country claimed the lives of at least 1,100 Iraqis in February, including more than 600 civilians.In a statement Sunday, the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq
Baghdad: The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, describing the relics as idols that must be removed.The destructions are
Baghdad: A series of bombings in Baghdad and near the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people today, officials said.The deadliest of the day's attacks came shortly before sunset, when a bomb exploded in a
Washington: The US has strengthened its ties with India through constant diplomacy and the exchange of historic visits by heads of government, enhancing cooperation particularly in the fields of economy, security, science and clean energy,
Baghdad: Multiple bombings, including a suicide truck bomb attack on Shiite militiamen, killed 19 people today in Iraq, as police found four bodies with gunshots wounds in the capital, officials said. Police officials said the
New Delhi: There was no proof of 39 Indian nationals, who were taken hostage in war-torn Iraq last June, being “dead or alive”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told their families when they met her
Washington: A massive ground offensive involving 20,000 to 25,000 troops may be launched by the Iraqi forces as early as April to retake Iraq's second largest city of Mosul from the Sunni radical group Islamic
Baghdad: Sunni radical group Islamic State (IS) Tuesday executed over 40 people, many of them security personnel, in Iraq's western province of Anbar, an official said.IS militants captured over 40 people from the albu-Obeid Sunni
New Delhi: As many as 140 Indians involved in labour issues in Basra in Iraq are coming back tomorrow after intervention by the Indian embassy there. “Labour issues resolved, coming back now. 140 Indians whose
Cairo: The extremist Islamic State group, which now controls a third of both Iraq and Syria in its self-declared caliphate, has inspired militants in Libya to behead Coptic Christians they held.The Libyan militants had earlier
New Delhi: According to latest data released by National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC), India stands third in the list of countries worst affected by bomb blasts last year.The data states that India witnessed 190 IED
Baghdad: Attacks in Baghdad killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens today; just days after the government lifted a nighttime curfew that had been in place in the Iraqi capital for over a decade.In
Baghdad: The militants of Sunni radical group Islamic State (IS) over the past few days have been looting and destroying ancient religious sites in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a government official said Sunday.The
Baghdad: A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital today killed more than three dozen people hours before the city's longtime curfew was set to come to an end. The deadliest attack happened in the
Washington: Veteran journalist Brian Williams, the popular host of NBC's nightly prime time newscast, has apologised after admitting that he made up the story he told about travelling in a helicopter that was attacked during
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