Muntazer, 30, was initially sentenced to three years for assaulting a foreign head of state but had his jail time reduced to one year on appeal.
The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the Gulf oil states sending funds to the ISIS
General Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force and also served as Iran's pointman on Iraq.
A militant outfit has threatened to behead a captured US soldier unless Iraqi prisoners are released in 72 hours.
As the Iraqi people prepare to vote in nationwide elections in January, multinational forces are determined to capture or kill those who desire to destabilise the elections process, said a US military statement.
The spy service will be trained, financed and equipped largely by the Central Intelligence Agency with help from Jordan, US government officials told 'The Washington Post'.
The Iraqi Government had some real concerns about having troops from a neighbouring country inside Iraq, said a US official.
The four young men from Kalyan who joined the jihad in Iraq are likely to provide technical support to the Internet-savvy ISIS.
He added that the government remains fully committed towards ensuring the safety of 'our sisters and brothers overseas'.
The advance of the Al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and its allies towards Baghdad appears to have been "stalled" but the "grave" situation in Iraq needs to be dealt with militarily as well as politically, a top UN official has said.
India imported 3.928 million tonnes of crude oil from Iraq during the first 11 months of 2002-03, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Iraqi counter-terrorism squad has arrested up to 35 Iraqi Interior Ministry officials, including four generals, for plotting a coup to reinstate the Baath Party of former dictator Saddam Hussein, a media report said on Thursday.
A bearded, axe-wielding warrior known as "Iraq's Rambo" is being feted as the hero of the battle to reclaim Tikrit.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the Islamist group were wounded yesterday in the coalition bombing raid.
The international suspension of the Iraqi Football Association was provisionally lifted by FIFA on Thursday.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi asked all Muslims to take up arms and fight on behalf of the group.
A Ganesh Nadar meets the family of Lesima Jerose Monisha, one of the Indian nurses stranded in Iraq's Tikrit, in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. "The nurses are well-fed but they haven't received a single rupee as salary in four months, hope India will make the Iraqi government pay them," says Edwija, her mother.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that the attack near the Iraqi border was carried out by 'terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime'.
Mohamed Makhafa, a retired school teacher, says he considers the size 10s a "medal of freedom and more valuable than everything he owns", Al Jazeera news channel reported.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Iraq on Tuesday to send a two-athlete team to next month's Beijing Games in a last-minute deal ending a dispute with the Iraqi government. Iraq was banned last week after the government disbanded the country's National Olympic Committee (NOC), a move that angered the IOC.
Seven countries, including Italy, France and the United Kingdom, have joined the American effort to arm the Kurdish forces in northern Iraq against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist outfit that has gained control of large parts of Syria and Iraq.
On Tuesday night, Iran launched over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting at least two bases where US military and coalition forces' are stationed in Iraq to 'avenge the killing' of General Qasem Soleimani.
Several hundred Indian nationals may be stranded in the Najaf province of Iraq, unable to return home because their employer refuses to return their passports, Amnesty International said on Saturday.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein pretended to possess weapons of mass destruction to prevent a possible Iranian attack but never thought that America would invade Iraq and overthrow him. The deposed Iraqi dictator, who was executed in 2006, revealed this information to Federal Bureau of Investigation's special agent George Piro, who interrogated him after his capture in 2003.
Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Both the meetings with the leaders of India and Pakistan would be held in New York on the sidelines of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, a senior administration official told reporters on Friday in a preview of Trump's engagements in the Big Apple next week.
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.
Forty Indian in the in violence-hit Iraqi city of Mosul could not be contacted, the external affairs ministry said on Wednesday amid reports of abduction.
The Guardian newspaper reports that leaders of three of the insurgent groups said the armed resistance would continue till all foreign troops had left Iraqi soil and, in passing, blamed the Al Qaeda for mayhem targeting civilians
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The winners of the 60th annual World Press Photo Contest have been announced. The winning shot was taken by Turkish Associated Press photographer called Burhan Ozbilici, with an image he has simply titled An Assassination in Turkey. Showing Mevlut Mert Altintas shouting after shooting Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, on December 19 2016.
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