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.
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
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.
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
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".
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.
India's imports from Russia rose by about 67 per cent to $30.42 billion during the April-September period this fiscal on higher shipments of crude oil and fertiliser, according to the commerce ministry data. With this, Russia has become India's second-largest import source during the first half of this fiscal. The imports were $18.24 billion during April-September 2022.
Sahim Salim explains the modus operandi employed by dubious travel agents in Punjab to lure youths into slavery in Iraq
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
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."=
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.
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.
Qatar returns to the spotlight on Friday little more than a year after the first World Cup held in the Arab world when the relocated and delayed 2023 Asian Cup gets underway amid a seismic shift in football's global order.
India is expected to ramp up its purchase of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the coming months following discussions between the two countries on the sidelines of the ongoing COP28 summit in Dubai, multiple sources in the know said. The UAE has historically been India's third-largest source of crude. It has suffered the largest drop in shipments since Indian refiners began to binge on Russian crude in 2022.
The minister's visit will also give India an opportunity to have first-hand assessment of evolving security situation in that region.
More than 180 Indians returned early Monday from Basrah on a special flight of Iraqi Airways, taking the number of people who have come back from conflict-hit Iraq to over 3,500.
Two youth, who returned from Iraq, have said that militants there were usually 'soft' on Indians, at least as compared to Pakistanis.
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.
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.
Among the dead were several women and children, the sources added.
'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.
The minister is expected to bring back the bodies by Monday.
The CIA's bleak assessment was in sharp contrast to the optimistic picture painted by President George W Bush.
Addressing a join press conference with British PM Gordon Brown, US President Bush said that failure in Iran would send a message to the world that the US cannot be counted upon. He added that it was important to succeed in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda and to thwart Iran's 'ambitions' of acquiring nuclear weapons. Bush and Gordon both dismissed speculation that the relationship between the two was not as 'special' as that between Bush and former British PM Tony Blair.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was number 36 on the US list of most wanted officials of the Saddam regime in Iraq.
Diego Maradona is on the brink of becoming coach of Iraq and wants to take the country to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, Argentine agent Hernan Tofoni said on Thursday.
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