A man from Kerala working as a truck driver for a Kuwait-based transportation firm has been killed in a landmine explosion in Iraq.
India squander chances to lose 0-1 to Lebanon
A bearded, axe-wielding warrior known as "Iraq's Rambo" is being feted as the hero of the battle to reclaim Tikrit.
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that 40-51 per cent feel that 'removing Saddam Hussein from power wasn't worth it'.
American-made computer circuits sold to a trading company in the United Arab Emirates have turned up as detonators in the roadside bombs aimed at US troops in Iraq, a media report said on Wednesday. The finding, according to NYT, set off a clash with Washington last year when the Bush administration cited the diversion of the computer circuits to Iran, and eventually Iraq, as proof that the UAE was failing to prevent US technology from slipping into wrong hands.
Arwa Sultanali, who visited Iraq's holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, sends her impressions of the war-torn country.
Upon his arrival in Beirut on Thursday, the Iranian minister said, "Some European officials asked me if there were any chances that new fronts might open up against the Zionist regime?"
But Bush administration officials said the war would continue.
United States President George W Bush intends to appoint current US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad as the country's ambassador to the United Nations to replace John Bolton
After weeks of haggling, Monday's version of the resolution was the fourth presented by the United States and Britain.
The meet begins amidst signs of a UN accord on Iraq.
The woes of Indian workers who have returned from strife-torn Iraq are far from over. They now face worries of debt amid the struggle to find new jobs.
"I am not giving false assurance. If I had confirmation that they were killed, then definitely, I would have sought apology from their families the with folded hands and said they were killed. Their killing in such a situation in Mosul in Iraq would not have been blamed on me.
Major General S C N Jatar, who passed into the ages on Monday night, thwarted anti-national forces at the peak of the Assam agitation. Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) salutes this officer and gentleman.
ISIS militants have killed at least 14 Real Madrid fans at a supporters club in northern Iraq.
Insurgents opposed to the election have threatened to kill anyone who visits the polling stations on Sunday, while three senior aides of Al Qaeda frontman Al-Zarqawi were arrested.
"Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but the fear of repressive States linking up with terrorist groups justifies robust action against any Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes, even if evidence is scanty"
He was speaking before leaving he emplaned for Turkey en route to the UN on a 13-day tour.
The US defence secretary was reacting to the death of 15 soldiers when the helicopter they were travelling in was brought down by a surface to air missile.
The incident occurred early Monday as the guardsmen queued up outside the station to collect their salary at the police station near Ramadi, some 150 km west of Baghdad.
Nearly 380 tonnes of deadly explosives, powerful enough to shatter air planes, demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons, are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
'We want the UN to play a role, and it is a part of our plan in moving forward,' he said.
Nearly 600 Indian nationals will come back from conflict-hit Iraq over the next two days of whom 200 will return by an Iraqi Airways special chartered flight from Najaf to Delhi on Saturday, External Affairs Ministry said.
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Thursday that he expected a new government in Iraq to honour any oil exploration contracts held by Indian companies.
A suicide bomber who hid explosives beneath watermelons in the bed of a pickup truck hit a police headquarters in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing five people and wounding eight others, police and hospital officials said.
A batch of over 200 Indians will be reaching India on Wednesday from the conflict-hit Iraq, taking the total number of compatriots who have come back to nearly 2,300.
Al-Nassr are one of 40 clubs from 20 leagues across the confederation drawn in 10 groups to face one another from Monday, with only the winners guaranteed to advance to the knockout rounds in the quest for the top prize of US$4 million.
'At this point, it looks like it was an improvised explosive device worn by an attacker,' Gen Myers said in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening.
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