Obama talks about Iraq and Afghanistan in his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
India fought back from a two-goal deficit to hold Iraq 2-2 in the AFC Under-16 championship qualifiers.
"The two sides express concern over the continuing deterioration of the situation in Iraq," a joint statement issued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Vladimir Putin, after their talks in New Delhi, said.
Musharraf suggested a version of a Muslim force in a speech to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, but the idea was immediately rejected by Iraq that said the country wants to be protected by Iraqis.
India imports about 25 million tonnes of oil from Iraq each year.
Striker Keito Nakamura scored the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup's first hat-trick as Japan hammered Honduras 6-1 to begin their campaign on a resounding note at the Indira Gandhi International Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday.
Iraq's High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein to death by hanging.
The United States on Thursday formally ended their nine-year mission in Iraq, which began with the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, with a low-key ceremony in Baghdad.
Blair is due to make an announcement in the House of Commons in which he is expected to clarify the details, the BBC reported.
Indian imports of Russian crude oil may stabilise or even decline in 2024 from record 2023 levels amid shrinking discounts, lower output, and a rebound in West Asian supplies, according to the ship-tracking data and industry executives. This may impact the billions of dollars in annual savings that India made last year. Imports of Russian oil jumped by a record 140 per cent in calendar 2023 to 1.79 million barrels a day (b/d) from 740,400 b/d in 2022, when Russia marched into Ukraine in February, and from just 102,000 b/d in 2021, according to the data from Paris-based market intelligence agency Kpler.
Oil -- and not human rights or concern for democracy -- is the driving force for the war in Libya as it was in Iraq, says senior analyst B Raman.
The Democrats in the House and the Senate finally bowed down to the wishes and pressure of the White House, but vowed to carry on the struggle.
the presence of British soldiers 'exacerbates the security problem' in Iraq and affects domestic security, said General Sir Richard Dannat.
Prince Harry graduated from Sandhurst in April 2006 and qualified as an armoured reconnaissance troop leader in October.
NIA's sleuths carried out these searches at 21 locations in Coimbatore, three in Chennai, and one location in Tenkasi -- all in Tamil Nadu.
Families of stranded Indians (mainly from Punjab) in conflict hit Iraq staged a dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Tuesday, demanding the central government's intervention for their release.
- Iraq pulled off a stunning 3-1 upset win over Australia at the Asian Cup on Friday to leave the tournament favourites in danger of an embarrassing early exit.
The US is prepared to carry out "targeted and precise military action" in Iraq if required, President Barack Obama said on Thursday.
A division bench of Justices SS Sundar and Sunder Mohan observed while hearing the bail plea of an alleged Islamic State of Iraq and Syria sympathiser, and also set him on liberty with a string of conditions, recently.
A classified assessment in the National Intelligence Estimate attributed a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday ruled out sending US ground troops "back into combat" in Iraq, but said that he is reviewing a range of other options to help the war-torn country counter the violent Islamic insurgency.
A civil war and the menace of militancy has prevented them from playing many matches in run up to the FIFA Under-17 World Cup but then Iraq have proved that they can conquer odds and perform well.
The White House will soon be presented a number of options on Iraq and one of them from the Pentagon will suggest that the US adopt the 'go big' strategy.
Over 3,500 Indians have been evacuated from conflict-hit Iraq in the last one month even as nearly 50 Indian nationals still remain in the conflict zones of the war-torn country, including 39 construction workers who are in captivity in Mosul.
In Group C, Iran's Sepahan survived a pair of red cards to defeat Air Force Club from Iraq 1-0 in Tehran and stay two points adrift of leaders Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia.
The 'erroneous' decision to go into Iraq had made the US allies to say that threat to them has increased and not decreased after the action in the Iraq, he said.
Vicky Nanjappa speaks to some of the forty-six nurses who were held captive by Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants in Iraq, and finds that none of them expected to get out of there safe
The pullout will follow the reported withdrawal around May of British and Australian forces in charge of security in southern Iraq.
The government was on Tuesday asked to take care of the rehabilitation of nurses who have returned from strife-torn Iraq.
Oil prices were poised for a third day of gains following a rise of more than 4 percent last week after Islamic militants seized much of northern Iraq as Baghdad's forces there collapsed.
The then UK foreign secretary Jack Straw made the revelations during his depositions before the Chilcot Inquiry, which declared today that the Iraq invasion in 2003 had been based on "flawed intelligence".
Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs said that the violation of Pakistan's sovereignty is "completely unacceptable" and warned of serious consequences.
The United States is set to bolster its military presence in the Persian Gulf by posting combat forces in Kuwait to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran.
If Iraq was hard, Afghanistan is much harder, believes US President Barack Obama, who over the past few weeks has spent more than 15 hours in the situation room of the White House with his key security and intelligence aides trying to find the right strategy for the region.
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
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