Operations suspended at Iraq's Khor Mor gas field following drone attackA drone strike has halted operations at the Khor Mor gas field in Iraqi Kurdistan. This attack caused significant power outages across the ...
27 Nov, 2025, 07.05 AM IST
Iran foreign minister in Davos: Attacks on Israel will end if Gaza war stopsThe Islamic Republic backs Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in its war with Israel, which has devastated Gaza in an aerial and ground offen...
18 Jan, 2024, 01.40 PM IST
Iran's Revolutionary Guards attack 'terrorist bases' in Iraq's Erbil, Iranian TV saysIn March, the Guards carried out an attack against what Iranian state media described as "Israeli strategic centres" in Erbil, suggesting i...
11 May, 2022, 01.49 PM IST
Pope Francis will visit Iraq on March 5-8 of next year: VaticanPope Francis will make the first-ever visit by a pope to Iraq next year, visiting five places, including Baghdad, Erbil and Mosul between M...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.31 PM IST
Iraq has assured cooperation in locating 39 missing Indians: External Affairs MinistryExternal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj earlier assured Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh that her ministry was making all-out efforts ...
10 Jul, 2017, 07.14 PM IST
11 Indian nurses rescued in Iraq, to return home in 3-5 daysThe nurses were brought to Erbil and were in the safe custody of Indian mission staff, the Spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry sa...
05 Feb, 2015, 09.56 PM IST
India strengthens staff in violence-hit Iraq's Erbil cityAccording to official sources, Sanjay Rana, Counsellor from Indian embassy in Male, and Abu Mathen George, Second Secretary from India's Ca...
10 Nov, 2014, 09.54 PM IST
US continues hitting ISIL targets, providing humanitarian aidThe US has continued with its two-pronged mission in Iraq, hitting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets and providing humanitar...
12 Aug, 2014, 09.28 AM IST
US air strikes on Iraq successful: Barack Obama"We feel confident" that military efforts can prevent ISIS from slaughtering people on Mount Sinjar, where ISIS has been killing many peopl...
09 Aug, 2014, 11.09 PM IST
70 Indians evacuated from Libya amid unrestThe Islamist militias launched a counteroffensive after units loyal to a renegade army general attempted to dislodge them from the city mon...
09 Aug, 2014, 09.27 PM IST
Plane carrying Indian nurses lands in KochiKerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy reached the airport to receive the nurses, where a special immigration desk has been set up.
05 Jul, 2014, 03.24 PM IST
Special Air India flight carrying Indian nurses lands in MumbaiThe flight carrying 183 Indian nationals from Erbil landed in Mumbai at 8:43 AM. The flight has made a 'technical halt'.
05 Jul, 2014, 09.59 AM IST
Air India plane leaves for Iraq to bring back freed nursesAn AI Boeing 777 left for Iraq this evening to bring back 46 nurses freed from captivity and also some others from India trapped in Iraq.
04 Jul, 2014, 08.05 PM IST
Air India sending Boeing 777 plane to bring back nurses from IraqAir India is sending a Boeing 777 aircraft to bring back 46 nurses and other Indians stranded in strife-torn Iraq.
04 Jul, 2014, 05.38 PM IST
Indian nurses on way to non-conflict area in IraqAccording to sources, the nurses would be reaching Erbil, the largest city of Kurdistan region of Iraq, shortly.
04 Jul, 2014, 04.21 PM IST
Indian nurses in Iraq freed, say sourcesAccording to a team of Indian officials waiting at the border, Indian nurses were on way to Erbil, a non-conflict zone in Iraq.
04 Jul, 2014, 02.58 PM IST
ISIL attacks on civilians could amount to war crimesSuch attacks on civilians and countrymen are violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.
20 Jun, 2014, 10.37 AM IST