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Pentagon denies it killed ISIS chief, but Baghdadi's right-hand man dies in airstrike
World | Sep 09, 2014, 07:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: Abu Hajar al-Sufi, the right-hand man of ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed in a US airstrike in Mosul, but the Pentagon has denied reports in social media that the ISIS chief
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ISIS jihadists order genital mutilation of all women in Iraq
World | Jul 25, 2014, 10:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged
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The master spy, Ajit Doval, went on secret mission to Iraq
India | Jul 08, 2014, 08:58 AM ISTNew Delhi: Ajit Doval, the National security adviser (NSA) went to Iraq on a secret mission to steer India's diplomatic outreach to bring home 46 nurses as well as help thousands of other Indians leave
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We are safe in Mosul: Kerala nurse
India | Jul 04, 2014, 12:58 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: One of the 46 nurses from Kerala who were now confined in Iraq's Mosul city by Sunni insurgents has spoken to her mother and said all of them were safe.Her mother told reporters here
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Indian nurses in Iraq freed by ISIS, to reach India tomorrow
India | Jul 04, 2014, 09:56 PM ISTNew Delhi/Kochi: On a day of “dramatic developments”, all 46 Indian women nurses were suddenly set free by Sunni militants ISIS in strife-torn Iraq and were being brought back home along with 70 others in
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Iraq Crises: Kerala nurses on way to Mosul, being treated well
India | Jul 03, 2014, 11:59 PM ISTNew Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The 46 Indian nurses, who were moved from their work place in Iraq's Tikrit city by Sunni insurgents Thursday afternoon, are near Mosul and are being treated well, said informed sources.It was around
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Iran assures help in getting abducted Indian workers released
India | Jun 27, 2014, 08:18 AM ISTNew Delhi: Iran yesterday assured all possible help to India in seeking release of 39 workers, who were kidnapped by Sunni insurgents of the ISIS in Iraq's Mosul last week.Following a series of meetings here
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Iraq militants playing a deadly game of life and death with Indian workers
India | Jun 22, 2014, 08:59 AM ISTNew Delhi: Indians who managed to escape from Iraq brought with them a horrific tale of Iraqi militants brutality. One of such lucky Indian who managed to flee Iraq revealed that the ISIS militants have
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Iraq Crises: 16 Indians evacuated, 1 of the 40 kidnapped escapes
India | Jun 20, 2014, 08:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sixteen Indians stranded in violence-affected areas of Iraq have been evacuated and one of the 40 kidnapped Indians has escaped from captivity in Mosul town even as government said it was “knocking at
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48 foreign captives released in Iraq, no news of Indians hostages
World | Jun 20, 2014, 09:26 AM ISTKirkuk/New Delhi: Militants who have seized large swathes of territory while advancing towards Iraq's capital Baghdad have released 48 foreigners, including four Turks, held captive for several days. However, there is no news of the
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Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 17 dead
World | May 16, 2013, 09:10 PM ISTBaghdad, May 16: Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said.The
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Car Bomb Kills 8 In Northern Iraq
World | Jan 16, 2012, 05:11 PM ISTBaghdad, Jan 16: A car bomb killed at least eight people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the latest in a series of attacks to target the country's Shiites