US and Iraqi forces Thursday launched a massive airborne operation north of Baghdad, involving over 50 aircraft and more than 1,500 troops, the military said.
The 23-year-old youth from Kalyan in neighbouring Thane landed in Mumbai on November 28 last year after returning from IS.
US and Iraqi forces freed a Briton and two Canadian hostages, including one of Indian origin, in a military operation Thursday.
Sunni rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- who have stormed Iraq's big cities like Mosul and Tikrit, taken over its largest oil refinery and slowly marching on to Baghdad, leaving a trail of blood and death -- as a part of its image-building has done something only major corporations do at the end of the year: issues annual reports, outlining its attacks, assassinations and terror acts.
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, was shot in the head and chest.
As soon as the trial started, television pictures showed a defiant Saddam Hussein asking the Judge, "Who are you? What are you doing here? I need to know."
The scale of crisis in Iraq with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overtaking each town in the country and vowing to continue their bloodshed till the time they take over Baghdad, has left everyone with the one question they thought they would never have to: Would Iraq have been more stable if Saddam Hussein had been in power?
Fuel accounts for as much as 35-40 per cent of the operational cost of an airline.
Iranian state television on Wednesday claimed that at least 80 "American terrorists" were killed after Teheran launched 15 missiles on US targets in Iraq.
Four suicide car bombers targeted Iraqi and United States security patrols today, killing 19 people in the latest surge of suicide attacks, the police said.
In other developments, The Bush administration sought Sunday to allay concerns that a Shiite religious state could emerge in Iraq as a result of last weekend's elections.
Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts blew themselves up in the middle of a group of 500 special forces policemen protesting the disbanding of their unit.
The Islamic State has also seen a decline in its primary revenue sources
He was arrested by the US-led forces in Iraq about four months ago on charges of entering a 'prohibited' area and taking photographs.
Another bomb hit Iraqi children plaing near an American military convoy in Baghdad, killing three and injuring 22.
The past week has seen bombings and violent strikes that have killed innocent civilians. Rediff.com recaps some of these deadly attacks.
About a dozen US troops were guarding the sprawling facility when Iraqi looters raided the site.
The attack occurred just minutes before leaders of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party were due to hold a news conference to name candidates for the January 30 election.
India and Iraq are likely to sign two agreements in the energy sector and cooperation in water resource management.
A similar attack Monday on the heavily fortified Green Zone--which houses Iraq's interim government and foreign embassies--had left 13 dead and over 70 injured.\n
The President, in a tweet, said that the 52 sites include some 'very important to Iran and Iranian culture'. The tension between US and Iran has escalated since the killing of powerful General of pro-Iran militia in Iraq.
They were released late Monday night and their health and spiritual conditions are generally stable, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
Stuard Milne, CEO, HSBC India talks about the bank's gameplan in the country.
Bradley Manning will be incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth, the US military's most famous prison.
Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr has pledged not to attack Spanish troops after Spain's decision to recall them soon.
On Sunday, a US airstrike in Fallujah killed 14 people and wounded three others, according to an Iraqi Health Ministry official for Anbar province.
India is negotiating a term contract with the new administration in Baghdad to import Iraqi crude even as it hopes to keep the exploration acreage awarded to it by the Saddam Hussein regime.
The Saudi Arabian Football Federation has apologised after its national team did not properly observe a minute's silence for the victims of the London attacks before the start of a World Cup qualifier in Australia.
Ross Mountain will replace Sergio Vieirra De Mello who was killed in a suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad on August 19.
Forty Indian workers have been kidnapped in strife-torn Iraq, prompting the government to launch all-out efforts to trace them. The workers, most of whom may be from Punjab and other parts of north India, were workers of a construction company in Mosul town of Iraq, said External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddid.
India is seeking over 3 million tonnes of crude oil from Iraq this fiscal even as it hopes that the interim US-led regime in Baghdad honours award of an oil exploration block to state-run ONGC Videsh Ltd by the previous Saddam Hussein regime.\n\n\n\n
Sardar Udham sets a great standard which, Utkarsh Mishra believes, would be emulated by other film-makers who want to make movies of this genre.
For a relaxed life, one should head to Germany as four of its cities rank in the top ten.
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