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  Iraqi family braves perilous journey to new life in Germany

  World | December 23, 2015 17:02 IST

  Heidelberg, Germany: The Qasus do not normally cry, but this felt nothing like normal. Like hundreds of thousands before them and untold more to come, the Iraqi family had just completed a disorienting dash across

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  Iraq holds first beauty pageant since 1972; winner defies ISIS threat

  World | December 24, 2015 11:45 IST

  New Delhi: 20-year-old Shaymaa Abdelrahman from the northern city of Kərkuk has been crowned 'Miss Iraq' in a competition that the country held after a gap of 33 years. The last time that the completion

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  Barack Obama presses Turkey's President to lower tensions with Iraq

  World | December 19, 2015 8:24 IST

  Washington: Urging an end to tensions between two U.S. partners, President Barack Obama asked Turkey on Friday to keep pulling its troops from a training camp in Iraq and respect the country's integrity as a

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  Islamic State smuggles oil via Turkey: Iraqi PM Abadi

  World | December 08, 2015 8:35 IST

  Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday said that the Islamic State group smuggled most of its oil through Turkey.A statement from his office said " (Abadi) stressed on the importance to stop oil

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  ISIS fears this axe-wielding 'Iraqi Rambo' who killed 1500 terrorists

  World | December 02, 2015 15:15 IST

  Baghdad: Every war needs a hero, and Abu Azrael has emerged as a heroic figure in the war against Islamic StateFamous for killing over 1500 ISIS affiliates, Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie (Real Name) got the Arabic

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  Paris attack marks new global war: Iraq's foreign minister

  World | November 30, 2015 7:54 IST

  Paris: The wave of suicide bombers and gunmen who terrorized Paris marked a new stage in the war against extremism that will leave no country in the world untouched, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday.In an

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  France Parliament votes to extend air strikes in Syria

  World | November 26, 2015 7:19 IST

  Paris: French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to extend air strikes against ISIS in Syria, which have been stepped up following the Paris attacks.The France government is trying to rally global action against the terrorist group. It

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  IS claims Tunisia attack, suspected bomber's body found

  World | November 25, 2015 22:55 IST

  Tunis: The body of a suspected suicide bomber was found at the scene of an attack on Tunisia's presidential guard, and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility today for the attack that left 13 people

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  Under Iraqi town, ISIS militants built network of tunnels

  World | November 25, 2015 12:52 IST

  IRBIL, Iraq: Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State group militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of U.S.-made ammunition,

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  10 brutal Islamic State laws that can be called downright absurd

  World | November 19, 2015 23:05 IST

  New Delhi: The ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is creating fear in minds of people more than any other man made disaster. ISIS currently poses largest terrorist threat to the world peace.On Friday,

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  Paris attacks a reaction to US actions in Syria, Iraq: Azam Khan

  Politics | November 16, 2015 18:30 IST

  New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Minister and Muslim face of Samajwadi Party, Azam Khan, has stoked fresh controversy with his remark that the global superpowers like US, Russia must realize that last week's terror attacks in

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  Paris attacks signal move toward more global IS strategy

  World | November 16, 2015 8:08 IST

  Baghdad: As the deadly attacks in Paris made horrifically clear, the Islamic State group is determined to establish itself as the dominant jihadist movement capable of operating far beyond the limits of its self-declared "caliphate."Doing

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  Iraq warned of attacks before Paris assault

  World | November 16, 2015 8:07 IST

  Baghdad: Senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group of imminent assaults by the militant organization just one day before last week's deadly attacks in Paris killed 129

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  German rapper turned ISIS man who said 'Jihad is a lot of fun' killed in US air strike

  World | October 30, 2015 18:36 IST

  Washington: A former German rapper who later was declared an international terrorist for joining Islamic State was killed in a air strike, a US security official said.  Born Denis Cuspert – hogged limelight as a

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  Islamic State: Prison rescue operation that killed an American Soldier (Video)

  World | October 26, 2015 14:37 IST

  Mosul: A dramatic footage of a rescue operation carried out by US and Kurdish forces to evacuate over 70 hostages from Islamic State prison in northern Iraq has emerged on social media.The operation took place

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  'Abduct women' and 'destroy churches', this is Islam: Iraqi cleric

  World | October 23, 2015 14:56 IST

  New Delhi: Ahmad al-Baghdadi, Iraqi ayatollah, has said that Islam and the rest of the world can never peacefully coexist.As reported in frontpagemag.com, during a recent televised interview, Ahmad al-Baghdadi, first debated defensive jihad saying

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  First US soldier killed in anti-ISIS rescue operation in Iraq

  World | October 23, 2015 16:16 IST

  Washington: One soldier of US special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue 70 hostages held by ISIS militants in northern Iraq.The US servicemember, who died of wounds suffered during the rescue

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  Iraq says forces recapture refinery town from ISIS militants

  World | October 21, 2015 9:03 IST

  Baghdad: Teamed up with paramilitary forces, Iraqi government troops on Tuesday drove Islamic State militants out of a key oil refinery town north of Baghdad, a government spokesman said.The Joint Military Command spokesman, Brig. Gen.

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  ISIS confirms killing of second-in-command in US air strike

  World | October 14, 2015 12:29 IST

  New Delhi: Militant outfit Islamic State has confirmed that its second-in-command, Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, whose real name was Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, was killed in a US air strike earlier this year.ISIS spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani,

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  US denies halting anti-ISIS cooperation with Iraq

  World | October 06, 2015 9:30 IST

  Baghdad: The US embassy here denied on Sunday it has halted military cooperation with Iraqi security forces to fight the Islamic State (IS) militant group which has captured parts of the western province of Anbar."Recent