Sunni Militants
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Car bombing kills at least 11 people in Baghdad
World | Aug 26, 2014, 04:35 PM ISTBaghdad: A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a busy Shiite area in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks to shake the Iraqi capital as
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US will intervene when innocents are facing massacre: Obama
World | Aug 09, 2014, 04:12 PM ISTWashington: President Barack Obama today said the US would intervene every time it could to prevent “massacre of innocent people”, justifying his decision to carry out targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamist militants. “The US
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Overnight attacks in Iraq kill at least 16 people
World | Jul 21, 2014, 04:22 PM ISTBaghdad: Attacks overnight in two Iraqi cities killed at least 16 people, officials said on Monday as authorities struggle to stop the Sunni militants' offensive that has left huge areas in northern and western Iraq
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Nurses return home, joy erupts among family members
India | Jul 05, 2014, 06:59 PM ISTKochi: Forty-six nurses, who were held captive by ISIS militants in Iraq, today returned home by a special Air India flight to a happy reunion with their families here, bringing to an end their about
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Indian nurses in Iraq safe: Oomen Chandy
National | Jul 04, 2014, 03:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: 46 Indian nurses, who are in ISIS-controlled region of Iraq, are safe and efforts are on to evacuate them, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said after meeting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today.
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Iraq Crisis: Two Indian nurses evacuated from conflict zone
India | Jun 26, 2014, 09:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Two Indian nurses have been evacuated from the conflict zone in violence-hit Iraq even as the 17 Indians who were moved out of Baghdad Tuesday have left the country, a top official said
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Iraq PM warns against exploiting militant offensive
World | Jun 26, 2014, 08:13 AM ISTBaghdad: Beleaguered Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned rivals today against exploiting a Sunni militant onslaught for political gain and insisted that any new government must be based on an election he won. His remarks came
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Iraq militia parades as insurgents seize crossing
World | Jun 22, 2014, 06:41 AM ISTBaghdad: Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities today as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province. The capture of
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Sunni militants seize a second Iraqi town in Anbar
World | Jun 21, 2014, 11:07 PM ISTBaghdad: The mayor of a town northwest of Baghdad says it has fallen into the hands of Sunni militants, the second to be captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the