Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Eshaiker al-Jafari today said his government has no substantial evidence whether the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul three years ago have been killed or are still alive.
The Iraq Embassy on Sunday informed India that search operations are underway to locate the 39 missing Indians, which were taken hostage by the Islamic State in Mosul in 2014
Iraq Embassy to India today said that search operations are underway to locate the 39 missing Indians who were taken as prisoners by the Islamic State in 2014.
The External Affairs Ministry today said Ibrahim al-Jaafari will pay his first official visit to India from July 24-28 at the invitation of Sushma Swaraj.
Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday that 39 Indians, who went missing in Iraq in 2014, could be in a prison in Badush and more clarity will emerge once the area is cleared of fighting.
Today’s report comes a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared Mosul liberated from the ISIS after nearly nine months of fierce fighting to dislodge the extremist militants from their last major stronghold in Iraq.
The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against the Islamic State (IS) terror group is not over, despite a "historic" victory in Mosul, the media reported on Tuesday.
Iraqi forces today declared victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul after eight-month long operation.
With anti-Islamic State group forces on the offensive in both the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, Iraq's prime minister made the bold assertion of ISIS caliphate coming to an end.
Geneva: According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), since 2014 more than 1,000 children have been killed in Iraq when militants from the Islamic State seized the northern city of Mosul and entire swathe of the country.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Islamic State militant group, in most cases, is responsible for such suicide attacks
June 10 marks the third anniversary of the ISIS rule in Iraq's second-largest city Mosul.
In two separate suicide car bombings targeting the Iraqi police in Baghdad, at least 18 persons were killed and 20 others were injured.
Former prisoner of the Unites States, Qasim al-Araji is now the head of the Interior Ministry, one of the most powerful ministries of Iraq. A decade ago, he was jailed in the US on charges of smuggling arms and for his involvement in an assassination
As Iraqi forces continue to make slow progress in the fight against ISIS, clawing back territory house by house and block by block, food supplies are running dangerously low for civilians trapped inside militant-held territory.
Al-Abadi said that the American troops will be advisers who will help Iraq’s security forces maintain ‘full readiness’ for any future security challenges.
An Iraqi military officer said that Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul.
Amid the raging debate over cow-slaughter in India, a top Shia cleric from Iraq has issued a fatwa urging minorities not to kill the animal, considered sacred in Hinduism.
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