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.
On Friday evening, Iraq instituted a flight ban that halted all international flights from servicing the territory’s airports.
In the 46-minute audio recording, Baghdadi has called for attacks on Western media and references North Korean threats to the US.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the fate of 39 Indians captured by the Islamic State group when the extremists initially overran Mosul three years ago is still unknown
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the fate of 39 Indians captured by the Islamic State group when the extremists initially overran Mosul three years ago is still unknown.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the deadly attacks, but such assaults bear the hallmarks of those carried out by the Islamic State.
"I repeat, I will not declare them (the missing Indians) dead until we have concrete evidence to that effect," she told Rajya Sabha.
Swaraj said that ‘files will not be closed unless we are convinced that they are dead’, adding that ‘credible sources have told the government that they all are alive’.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Eshaiker al-Jafari today said his government has no substantial evidence whether the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul three years ago have been killed or are still alive.
The Iraq Embassy on Sunday informed India that search operations are underway to locate the 39 missing Indians, which were taken hostage by the Islamic State in Mosul in 2014
Iraq Embassy to India today said that search operations are underway to locate the 39 missing Indians who were taken as prisoners by the Islamic State in 2014.
The External Affairs Ministry today said Ibrahim al-Jaafari will pay his first official visit to India from July 24-28 at the invitation of Sushma Swaraj.
Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday that 39 Indians, who went missing in Iraq in 2014, could be in a prison in Badush and more clarity will emerge once the area is cleared of fighting.
Today’s report comes a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared Mosul liberated from the ISIS after nearly nine months of fierce fighting to dislodge the extremist militants from their last major stronghold in Iraq.
The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against the Islamic State (IS) terror group is not over, despite a "historic" victory in Mosul, the media reported on Tuesday.
Iraqi forces today declared victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul after eight-month long operation.
With anti-Islamic State group forces on the offensive in both the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, Iraq's prime minister made the bold assertion of ISIS caliphate coming to an end.
Geneva: According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), since 2014 more than 1,000 children have been killed in Iraq when militants from the Islamic State seized the northern city of Mosul and entire swathe of the country.
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