The Iraqi leadership assured full cooperation and support in the matter.
But why should India be talking to the Taliban in the first place? There is no love lost there. India will never forget or forgive the humiliation to which the Taliban subjected it in the IC-814 hijack, notes Shekhar Gupta.
A local court on Friday allowed National Investigation Agency to seek details of the conversations and chats carried out by the alleged ISIS `recruit' Arif Majeed through the telecommunication apps Skype and Tango.
They were shot on Friday as they headed for Karbala in a bus, officials said.
American military officials have spent days huddled in meetings with Iraqi officers in a race to turn blueprints drawn up in Washington into a plan that will work on the ground in Baghdad, The New York Times on Tuesday said.
Pompeo defended the killing of Soleimani saying he was making efforts for an attack on Americans in the region.
US and Iraqi forces Thursday launched a massive airborne operation north of Baghdad, involving over 50 aircraft and more than 1,500 troops, the military said.
The 23-year-old youth from Kalyan in neighbouring Thane landed in Mumbai on November 28 last year after returning from IS.
US and Iraqi forces freed a Briton and two Canadian hostages, including one of Indian origin, in a military operation Thursday.
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, was shot in the head and chest.
As soon as the trial started, television pictures showed a defiant Saddam Hussein asking the Judge, "Who are you? What are you doing here? I need to know."
Sunni rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- who have stormed Iraq's big cities like Mosul and Tikrit, taken over its largest oil refinery and slowly marching on to Baghdad, leaving a trail of blood and death -- as a part of its image-building has done something only major corporations do at the end of the year: issues annual reports, outlining its attacks, assassinations and terror acts.
The scale of crisis in Iraq with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overtaking each town in the country and vowing to continue their bloodshed till the time they take over Baghdad, has left everyone with the one question they thought they would never have to: Would Iraq have been more stable if Saddam Hussein had been in power?
Fuel accounts for as much as 35-40 per cent of the operational cost of an airline.
Four suicide car bombers targeted Iraqi and United States security patrols today, killing 19 people in the latest surge of suicide attacks, the police said.
In other developments, The Bush administration sought Sunday to allay concerns that a Shiite religious state could emerge in Iraq as a result of last weekend's elections.
Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts blew themselves up in the middle of a group of 500 special forces policemen protesting the disbanding of their unit.
Iranian state television on Wednesday claimed that at least 80 "American terrorists" were killed after Teheran launched 15 missiles on US targets in Iraq.
He was arrested by the US-led forces in Iraq about four months ago on charges of entering a 'prohibited' area and taking photographs.
The Islamic State has also seen a decline in its primary revenue sources
Another bomb hit Iraqi children plaing near an American military convoy in Baghdad, killing three and injuring 22.
About a dozen US troops were guarding the sprawling facility when Iraqi looters raided the site.
The past week has seen bombings and violent strikes that have killed innocent civilians. Rediff.com recaps some of these deadly attacks.
The attack occurred just minutes before leaders of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party were due to hold a news conference to name candidates for the January 30 election.
A similar attack Monday on the heavily fortified Green Zone--which houses Iraq's interim government and foreign embassies--had left 13 dead and over 70 injured.\n
India and Iraq are likely to sign two agreements in the energy sector and cooperation in water resource management.
They were released late Monday night and their health and spiritual conditions are generally stable, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
The President, in a tweet, said that the 52 sites include some 'very important to Iran and Iranian culture'. The tension between US and Iran has escalated since the killing of powerful General of pro-Iran militia in Iraq.
Stuard Milne, CEO, HSBC India talks about the bank's gameplan in the country.
Bradley Manning will be incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth, the US military's most famous prison.
Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr has pledged not to attack Spanish troops after Spain's decision to recall them soon.
On Sunday, a US airstrike in Fallujah killed 14 people and wounded three others, according to an Iraqi Health Ministry official for Anbar province.
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