Iraq
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Global outrage over Islamic State group attack on ancient Iraqi site
World | Mar 07, 2015, 07:28 AM ISTBaghdad : 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
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Fierce clashes outside Iraq's Tikrit after new offensive
World | Mar 03, 2015, 05:20 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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UN: Iraq violence kills at least 1,100 in February
World | Mar 01, 2015, 03:05 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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New IS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts
World | Feb 26, 2015, 09:55 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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Bombs in Iraq, including twin blasts on busy street, kill 23
World | Feb 24, 2015, 11:41 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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US has strengthened ties with India: Kerry
World | Feb 24, 2015, 11:07 PM ISTWashington: 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,
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Attacks kills 19 people in Iraq
World | Feb 22, 2015, 11:59 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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No proof 39 Indians held hostage in Iraq are dead or alive: Sushma
India | Feb 21, 2015, 08:14 PM ISTNew 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
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Massive push against IS in Mosul likely in April
World | Feb 20, 2015, 02:05 PM ISTWashington: 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
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Islamic State Executes 40 People in Iraq: Report
World | Feb 18, 2015, 10:19 AM ISTBaghdad: 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
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140 Indians returning from Iraq tomorrow
India | Feb 18, 2015, 10:36 AM ISTNew 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
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A history of the Islamic State group's atrocities, gains
World | Feb 17, 2015, 08:51 AM ISTCairo: 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
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India third in the list of countries worst affected by bomb blasts: NBDC
India | Feb 12, 2015, 02:10 PM ISTNew 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
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Suicide attack, bombing kill at least 22 in Iraq's capital
World | Feb 09, 2015, 09:13 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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Islamic State destroys ancient religious sites in Mosul
World | Feb 09, 2015, 06:39 AM ISTBaghdad: 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
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Iraq officials: Multiple Baghdad bombings kill 37, wound 86
World | Feb 07, 2015, 07:24 PM ISTBaghdad: 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
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US journalist admits faking story about Iraq attack
World | Feb 06, 2015, 08:27 AM ISTWashington: 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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Jordan launches new airstrikes after vowing harsh war on IS
World | Feb 05, 2015, 10:44 PM ISTAmman, Jordan: Jordanian warplanes bombed Islamic State targets on Thursday, state TV said, after the country's king vowed to wage a “harsh” war against the militants who control large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq.The
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UN says violence in Iraq kills at least 1,375 in January
World | Feb 01, 2015, 06:41 PM ISTBaghdad: The United Nations mission to Iraq said Sunday that violence in the country amid the war against the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 1,375 people in January.The U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq,
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Clashes in Iraq kill dozens of jihadis
World | Jan 31, 2015, 08:01 AM ISTBaghdad: Dozens of Islamic State (IS) jihadis, and at least 16 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed, and 77 people were injured in intense fighting in several Iraqi provinces Friday.An Iraqi police source