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.
The explosion took place around 10.30 am in the Qala-e-Nazar area, Nasrat Rahimi, the ministry said, adding that the victims included women and children.
The revelation came out after NIA, which took over the investigation of the case on September 5 following MHA orders, filed a chargesheet against Kandy and his associate Mohammad Mustafa on December 23.
In a series of statements Tuesday, 40 rebel groups, including some of Syria’s most prominent, as well as political opposition umbrella groups, said Moscow’s proposed talks are an attempt to “circumvent” the United Nations-led process.
The victims included five civilians and the attacker who was a teenager.
Iraqi or coalition forces are responsible for at least 3,200 civilian deaths between October 2016 and the fall of IS in July 2017.
A military official, on condition of anonymity, said several strikes hit an Al-Shabaab base in Berhani location, some 60 kilometre south of Kismayo, killing several senior terrorists, Xinhua reported.
The New York Police Department was responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin on Monday morning in midtown Manhattan at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, the police department’s official twitter handle said.
In a speech to the troops, Vladimir Putin said that he had ordered the military to withdraw a “significant part” of the Russian contingent in Syria.
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".
ISIS has been driven from more than 96 percent of the large parts of Iraq and Syria it once held, crushing its goal of establishing a “caliphate” in the region.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack which comes as Iraqi forces are conducting the last military operations against the Islamic State group in the country.
According to the Russian Federation Council's Defence and Security Committee, the fight against the ISIS in Syria will possibly be over by the end of the year and Russia may be able to withdraw its air force.
Egyptian state news agency MENA reported that the death toll from an attack on a mosque in the volatile northern Sinai Peninsula has risen to 235 people killed.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Assad was called to Russia to get him to agree to potential peace initiatives drafted by Russia, Iran and Turkey.
Putin hosted Assad in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday ahead of a summit between Russia, Turkey and Iran and a new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva.
Jitendra Singh said that security forces are taking appropriate view and will adopt future course of action accordingly. He added government has given free hand given to security forces to perform with professional freedom.
A police sub-inspector (SI) was killed and Special Police Officer (SPO) injured in a militant attack on a police party in Zakura area of Srinagar on November 17.
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