FC Goa travel to Iraq for crucial clash against Al Zawraa SC
Indian football team head coach Khalid Jamil on Wednesday announced 23 probables for the inconsequential Asian Cup qualifiers match against Bangladesh and talismanic striker Sunil Chhetri's name is missing from the list.
As the Iran-Israel conflict takes dangerous dimensions, support for Tehran comes from next door as Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims protest Jerusalem's attacks in Baghdad.
The ministry of external affairs said in a statement that the Indian embassy remains in touch with the community with a view to extend all feasible assistance.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, led the prayers at assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's funeral in Tehran, on August 1, 2024, a rare honour for someone who is not Iranian.
Thousands of mourners on Saturday joined the formal funeral procession for Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, who was killed a day before near Baghdad's international airport in an air strike ordered by United States President Donald Trump.
Green Zone of the Iraqi capital houses government agencies and foreign embassies. 'Two Katyusha rockets fell in the Green Zone, no people were injured,' Iraq's security services said.
Protesters attacked what they deemed to be US' disproportionate response -- the killing of 24 militiamen on Sunday in retaliation for the death of an American contractor on Friday.
Ali al-Haidri is the most senior Iraqi official to be killed in Baghdad since the head of the Governing Council was killed by a suicide bomb in May last year.
The bombing is the deadliest in Iraq since Iraqi security forces last month dislodged Islamic State terrorists from Falluja, the IS stronghold just west of Baghdad that had served as a launch pad for such terror attacks.
'As America prepares its exit strategy, the fear in Iraq is of a genocidal conflict between the Sunni minority and the Shias in which an entire society implodes,' warns The Independent.
She last won a medal in the World Cup Stage 3 where she had bagged a team silver.
Gunmen stormed into a Baghdad mall on Monday after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance, killing at least 18 people and wounding 50.
A resurgence in Saudi Arabian supplies of crude oil to India coupled with an attack on an Iraqi tanker in August carrying crude to Europe may result in improved bargaining power for India with West Asian and Russian suppliers for winter supplies. Shipments of Saudi oil rebounded in September from August, surging to the highest since March while Russian oil shipments rose marginally as Saudi Arabia tried to claw back market share in Asia, according to industry sources and ship tracking data.
Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son were shot outside their home in southern Baghdad on Monday.
The ministry said that they are continuing to deliver just punishment to those whose hands are stained with the blood of Iraqis.
Al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has carved out a large fiefdom along the Iraqi-Syrian border, poses a "legitimate threat" to the capital city of Baghdad, a top Pentagon official has said.
'Are we to believe that coordinated moves by the Canadian and US authorities are no longer taking place?', asks Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
General Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force and also served as Iran's pointman on Iraq.
Sources said that at least five explosions were reported from different parts of the city.
The explosions took place within minutes of each other.
Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
India, who have never won an Olympic archery medal, will send a full six-member contingent to Paris to compete in all five events for the first time in 12 years
A suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives blew himself up on Sunday inside a popular Baghdad kebab restaurant killing 16 people.
"Iraq has a government elected by its people ... despite all the terrorism and violence the people have spoken and they have elected a government," the British Prime Minister said.
A series of car bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least 127 people and injured nearly 500 others, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry.The first vehicle, reportedly targeted at a police patrol, exploded at southern Baghdad's Dora district at approximately 10 am local time, and was followed by four similar blasts.One of the blasts struck near the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs while the other two took place in crowded commercial areas.
The archers have also confirmed 10 more medals including at least three gold on Sunday.
However, the reason behind the explosions is not known as yet.
Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
The United States on Monday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Baghdad, which killed more than 100 people, saying that it showed the 'hateful and destructive' agenda of the attackers.
The bomb went off in the Al-Bayaa district of the Iraqi capital and wounded 15.
After covering the battlefields of Baghdad for three-and-a-half years, Time magazine's Aparasim Ghosh takes a break in New York.
Bobby, who is the Baghdad bureau chief of Time magazine, has seen two kidnap attempts been made on him and his car fired at by American soldiers mistaking him to a bomber.
His visit to Iraq comes less than a week after a US air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq.
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