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  Thousands remain missing after Iraq’s victories against ISIS

  World | January 01, 2018 10:07 IST

  Regardless, Iraqi government bureaucracy, inefficiency and neglect have left thousands of families across Iraq hanging as the country’s leadership celebrates the defeat of IS.

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  India has completed DNA testing of families of 39 Indians missing from Mosul: Sushma Swaraj

  India | December 20, 2017 18:33 IST

  Urgent steps were taken to arrange for DNA samples of the family members of the missing Indians to assist the Iraqi authorities in their investigations.

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  9,000-plus civilians died in battle with Islamic State group for Iraq's Mosul

  World | December 20, 2017 13:54 IST

  Iraqi or coalition forces are responsible for at least 3,200 civilian deaths between October 2016 and the fall of IS in July 2017.

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  Families of 39 Indians kidnapped in Mosul told to take DNA tests

  News | October 22, 2017 9:25 IST

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  DNA samples of kin of 39 missing Indians collected as ISIS collapses in Iraq

  India | October 22, 2017 8:23 IST

  The MEA is collecting is DNA samples of family members of the 39 Indians who went missing in Iraq's Mosul in 2014.

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  Not sure if they are alive or dead: Iraq on 39 missing Indians

  India | July 24, 2017 23:44 IST

  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.

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  39 missing Indians: Congress attacks Centre for ‘zero efforts’, prepares privilege motion against Swaraj

  Politics | July 24, 2017 12:20 IST

  The Congress on Monday said that it will submit a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha for “misleading the nation, Parliament and families” of the missing citizens

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  Iraq says search on for 39 abducted Indians, Swaraj to discuss issue with Iraqi counterpart today

  World | July 24, 2017 7:01 IST

  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

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  Swaraj to hold talks with Iraqi counterpart on 39 abducted Indians

  India | July 23, 2017 20:44 IST

  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.

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  39 abducted Indians could be in Iraq's Badush jail: Sushma Swaraj

  Politics | July 16, 2017 23:57 IST

  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.

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  ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, says Syrian Observatory

  World | July 12, 2017 6:18 IST

  Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported dead on Tuesday, according to a Syrian monitoring group, a day after Iraq declared it had driven the terror group from their one-time biggest stronghold of Mosul

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  India escalates search for 39 missing nationals as Iraqi forces reclaim Mosul from ISIS

  India | July 10, 2017 19:57 IST

  External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today assured Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh that her ministry was making all-out efforts to trace 39 Indians, mostly from Punjab, who had been held hostage in the Iraqi city of Mosul since 2014

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  Iraqi PM declares 'victory' over Islamic State after recapturing Mosul

  News | July 10, 2017 10:27 IST

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  Iraqi forces declare 'victory' over IS after recapturing Mosul

  World | July 09, 2017 20:34 IST

  Iraqi forces today declared victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul after eight-month long operation.

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  ISIS blows up historic mosque in Mosul where Baghdadi became 'caliph'

  World | June 22, 2017 8:46 IST

  Jihadists blew up Mosul’s iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque where their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 declared himself “caliph” in his only public appearance, Iraqi officials said

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  ISIS has held 100,000 civilians as ‘human shields’ in Mosul’s Old City: UN

  World | June 16, 2017 17:45 IST

  The United Nations on Friday said that the Islamic State jihadists may be holding more than 1,00,000 Iraqi civilians as human shield in the Old City of Mosul

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  Islamic State terrorists start burning their archives in Mosul

  World | May 31, 2017 9:49 IST

  The burning of the archives is a "clear indication" of a major collapse within IS's ranks and is aimed at concealing its crimes against civilians and the identities of its accomplices.

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  Iraqi forces hope to liberate Mosul from IS by June 10

  World | May 30, 2017 13:35 IST

  June 10 marks the third anniversary of the ISIS rule in Iraq's second-largest city Mosul.

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  ISIS executes 145 civilians for trying to flee Mosul

  World | May 14, 2017 12:26 IST

  The Islamic State has executed more than 145 civilians for trying to flee the western part of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

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  ISIS downs Iraqi helicopter west of Mosul

  World | May 13, 2017 22:14 IST

  The Islamic State (ISIS) today downed an Iraqi air force helicopter west of Mosul.