She also accused the Congress of indulging in ‘cheap politics’ by disrupting proceedings in the Lok Sabha when she was to make a statement on the deaths of 39 Indians in Iraq.
The mortal remains, which were exhumed from a mass grave in Badosh, will be brought back to India on a special plane and handed over to their relatives, Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha.
M J Akbar said the world must congratulate the people and government of Iraq for their "historic victory" over a vicious contemporary menace - ISIS and its allies.
This is the second such attack in the Iraqi capital in a span of three days. The deadly incident that shook the capital was reported from Tayeran Square.
The US Geological Survey said seven of the quakes struck near the Iraqi city of Mandali and an eighth struck near Mehran in western Iran. All struck within an hour of each other, beginning at 0659 GMT.
Regardless, Iraqi government bureaucracy, inefficiency and neglect have left thousands of families across Iraq hanging as the country’s leadership celebrates the defeat of IS.
Iran gained major influence in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-led dictatorship and empowered the country’s Shiite majority.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally announced the victory in an address to the nation aired on Iraqi state television Saturday evening.
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday congratulated her Iraqi counterpart Haider Abadi over the Islamic State victory, but warned the militant group is "not yet defeated".
A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the mountainous region along the border between Iran and Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 407 people and injuring over 6,500.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also said Egypt’s ongoing arms buildup was designed in part to equip the country to deal with terrorism and redress the “strategic imbalance” in the region created by conflict.
The report, prepared by UNAMI and OHCHR, documents mass abductions and the use of thousands of civilians as human shields by ISIS.
The order was given to “prevent clashes and bloodshed between the sons of one nation,” Haider al-Abadi said in a written statement.
Rex Tillerson said countries outside of the region could also play a role, primarily by shunning the powerful Revolutionary Guards, which play a major role in Iran’s economy.
ISIS captured Al-Omar in 2014, when the group swept across large areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
The move by the Iraqi military and its allied militias so soon after neutralizing the Islamic State in northern Iraq hinted at a country that could once again turn on itself after disposing of a common enemy.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ruled out the use of military force against the Kurds.
The Russian airstrikes destroyed an IS strongpoint in the town of Albu Kamal near the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Iraqi forces have driven IS from nearly all the cities and towns it seized in the summer of 2014, including the country’s second largest city, Mosul, which was liberated in July.
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