The US is prepared to carry out "targeted and precise military action" in Iraq if required, President Barack Obama said on Thursday.
Swaraj is likely to make a detailed statement in Parliament on Tuesday about her meeting with her Iraqi counterpart.
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.
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.
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
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.
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday asked the British government to withdraw troops from Iraq to prevent further terrorist attacks against the country.\n\n
Jagat Singh, son of former external affairs minister Natwar Singh, who appeared before the Pathak Inquiry Authority going into the alleged pay-offs in the United Nations oil-for-food scam, on Tuesday said it asked him about his visit to Iraq.
In an address at a security conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Kazakh capital, he also underlined the need for holding accountable the sponsors, financiers and facilitators of terrorism, in remarks that came amid Pakistan's continuing support to various terror groups.
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 money, crucial for providing the necessary military assistance to the country ravaged by years of war and insurgency, was supposedly spent in buying arms from Poland and Pakistan, the daily said.
US invasion of Iraq attempt at human rights violation: Speaker
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.
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.
Sahim Salim explains the modus operandi employed by dubious travel agents in Punjab to lure youths into slavery in Iraq
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.
Two youth, who returned from Iraq, have said that militants there were usually 'soft' on Indians, at least as compared to Pakistanis.
Escalation of the conflict in West Asia between Israel and Iran has had a direct impact on the energy markets, and more broadly on the financial markets as well as the global economy.
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".
But David Kay, who quit as chief weapons inspector, cleared the White House of using US intelligence agencies to build a case for war by creating a false impression of Saddam's WMD.
On his first full day in office, President Barack Hussein Obama is set to roll out his new war strategy as he chairs a crucial meeting of his top military and national security advisers today at the White House.
Among the dead were several women and children, the sources added.
With over 200 people from Punjab stranded in strife-torn Iraq, the state government has decided to bear the expenses for bringing them back safely.
'As we approach the elections, every effort must be made to provide incentives for the various Iraqi groups to participate in a national reconciliation process,' said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
More than a month after they lost contact with their kin stranded in Iraq, around 30 families from Punjab, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh have moved to the national capital with a resolve to "not go back till we get proof of life and a timeline from the government for safely bringing back our kin." Upasana Pandey speaks with the family of those stranded in Iraq.
Blair, however, stopped short of a full apology for the war, saying, "I find it hard to apologise for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there than that he is there."=
The CIA's bleak assessment was in sharp contrast to the optimistic picture painted by President George W Bush.
