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.
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.
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.
'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.