US to send more troops to Iraq for Mosul battle: Defence Secretary
World | Sep 30, 2016, 11:27 AM ISTThe United States has decided to send 615 more troops to Iraq as the stage is set for an Iraqi-led battle to reclaim Mosul.
The United States has decided to send 615 more troops to Iraq as the stage is set for an Iraqi-led battle to reclaim Mosul.
At least 11 members of Baghdad security forces today died in a triple suicide bombing against a security check point, a police officers said. The spokesman for the Salahuddin province police force, Col Mohammed al-Jabouri,
Islamic State militants are suspected of firing a shell loaded with a chemical agent during an attack on US and Iraqi troops in northern region, a Pentagon spokesman said.
A senior US State Department official has rejected reports suggesting that the policies administered by the Obama administration in Iraq led to the creation of dreaded terror group Islamic State.
In what signals the strengthening of roots of terror, the dreaded outfit Islamic State (IS) buried around 15,000 or more victims of its atrocities in total 72 graves along Syria and Iraq, a survey conducted
Iraq has asked Saudi Arabia to replace its ambassador in Baghdad, stressing that his presence would hamper the development of bilateral ties, authorities said. Ahmed Jamal, spokesman of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, told the state-run
Two years after nearly 1,700 air force cadets were killed, Iraq today executed 36 insurgents of the Islamic State militant group held guilty of the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre, the Ministry of Justice said. "The
In his first official visit, MoS for External Affairs MJ Akbar will travel to Lebanon, Syria and Iraq from August 17-23. During his stay in these three war-torn nations, Akbar will discuss key security issues,
US President Barack Obama on Thursday said that America and its allies have made significant progress in the military campaign against Islamic State, but warned that the militant group still can direct and inspire attacks.
The dead includes at least 10 civilians and four policemen, said a police officer, adding, "The bomber was on foot and detonated his device at one of the busy entrances of the Shiite district of Kadhimiyah.”
The new Iraqi Ambassador Fakhri Hassan Al Issa has warned India that there is a possibility of ISIS setting up sleeper cells in this country.
Baghdad: Abu Omar al-Shishani,regarded by the Pentagon as Islamic State’s “minister of war”, was killed in a US strike in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, confirmed a news agency linked to the
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today extended India's support to Iraq for putting up a resolute fight against the terrorist organisation ISIS. "India strongly supports the Iraqi people and the Government in your efforts
With each passing day, dreaded militant group Islamic State is losing more territory in Iraq and Syria to US-led international coalition.
Baghdad: An attack carried out by multiple suicide bombers and gunmen on a Shiite shrine in Balad north of Baghdad late on Thursday night killed 30 and wounded 52, according to Iraqi police and hospital
Khanke, Iraq: Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl, described how she was abducted along with her sisters and brothers when IS overran her village in 2014. The posting in Arabic appeared on an
Baghdad: Bombs went off Saturday midnight in two crowded commercial areas in Baghdad, killing at least 82 people and wounding over 200 , according to hospital and police officials. The bombings came near the end
Baghdad: In a horrific incident, four married men were stoned to death after they were found to have indulged in ‘committing adultery’ in Iraq. ISIS, one of the most dreaded terror groups in the
New Delhi: Peshmerga units of Kurdish Regional Government monitoring the Islamic State’s preparations ahead of a government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul have found no evidence that Indian or other South Asian
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) told Newsweek that the monitoring group was informed by Baghdadi's death by the extremist group and that it will soon announce his successor.
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