Iraqi civilian drowned after being forced to jump off a bridge in Baghdad
The Saudi and Iraq offer to replace Iranian crude supplies comes with a catch: Higher prices for the same quality of crude. The new government will face a tough decision over fuel price hike, says Aveek Sen.
The injured soldiers' doctor is the lanky 30-year-old son of Indian immigrants from Kolkata.
A Shia leader who was the main target of the suicide bomber was not in office when the blast occurred.
Several hundred Indian nationals may be stranded in the Najaf province of Iraq, unable to return home because their employer refuses to return their passports, Amnesty International said on Saturday.
Truck driver Thomas Hamill was among seven people abducted after an April 9 attack on their convoy west of Baghdad.
Victory in Ramadi deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015.
The seven Chinese entered Iraq via Jordan on Sunday morning and were most probably abducted in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Xinhua news agency quoted a Chinese diplomat as saying.
Recently the agency had to sack its top officer in Baghdad amid questions about his ability to lead the gargantuan station there.
'Drone warfare has come to stay.' 'India should exploit the expected Reaper acquisition from the US to build an effective counter terror campaign,' argues Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
A truck driver in Kuwait says they have no information about the megotiations on to free the Indian hostages.
Tech stocks proved a major focus of the market on Monday after HCL Tech announced the bagging of a major overseas BPO order.
'It looked as if India had been a major player in science at that time, raising the question when and why things changed,' says distinguished aerospace scientist Professor Roddam Narasimha.
The US deputy defence secretary was in the Rashid Hotel when rockets slammed into it.
Members accused Washington of acting as a "big bully" saying that its wants to wage war against Iraq to take control of the countrys huge oil resources.
The US would 'welcome and support' a new UN Security Council resolution if it highlights the world body's resolve, he said.
Swaraj on Sunday briefed family members of the abducted men, who are mostly from Punjab, about information gathered by the Minister of State for External Affairs, V K Singh, who was sent to the Gulf nation after its prime minister announced the liberation of Mosul from the dreaded terror group Islamic State.
He is demanding safe exit to the former soviet republic of Belarus, The Sunday Mirror said.
This contradicts the earlier US claim that the former Iraqi president was hand-in-glove with Osama bin Laden.
In his brief chat with Musharraf, Annan discussed the security of the UN staff, its officers and its aid programme, Pakistani news agency NNI quoted UN officials saying.
Indian efforts to secure a share in Iraqi crude oil have been hit with Indian Oil Corporation failing to get entry visas in time for sending its officials to Baghdad to seal an import deal.
