Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife sentenced to death in Iraq; what was her crime and who was Baghdadi?The wife of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. She was convicted for facilitating the kidnapping, illegal ...
12 Jul, 2024, 02.09 AM IST
Iran Bomb Blast: Nearly 100 killed, 211 wounded in Iran bomb blasts at ceremony honoring slain generalIran Bomb Blast: Two explosions occurred near an Iranian cemetery during a ceremony commemorating Qassem Soleimani's 2020 killing by a U.S....
04 Jan, 2024, 10.54 AM IST
From Saddam Hussein to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass gravesDictator Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Next came the 1991 Gulf war over Kuwait, then the 2003 US-led invasion, ye...
10 Jun, 2022, 10.46 AM IST
ISIS not just regional terror outfit but global syndicate with affiliated groups globally: IndiaRavindra said ISIL has systematically committed genocide, torture, rape, slavery and kidnapping throughout the territory under its control ...
12 May, 2021, 09.20 AM IST
Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis: United Nations expertsKarim Khan told the Security Council the team also concluded war crimes were committed by the Islamic State group against predominantly Shi...
11 May, 2021, 02.13 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj was just 'a phone call away' for families of Indians killed in IraqThe families say Swaraj was a constant source of support and helped them bring back the mortal remains of their loved ones which finally ga...
07 Aug, 2019, 06.07 PM IST
ISIS's 'legacy of terror' in Iraq: UN verifies over 200 mass gravesThe top UN official in Iraq and the head of UNAMI Ján Kubiš said that the mass grave sites "are a testament to harrowing human loss, profou...
07 Nov, 2018, 12.43 PM IST
V K Singh in Iraq to coordinate search operation for missing IndiansThe Iraqi embassy said Iraq and India continue their close cooperation in order to find the location of the missing Indians who were kidnap...
12 Jul, 2018, 11.54 AM IST
HC junks PIL seeking probe into killing of 39 Indians in IraqObserving that such pleas deserve "condemnation" and "need to be discouraged", the court imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner-lawy...
06 Jun, 2018, 04.01 PM IST
Bodies of those killed in Iraq to be brought to India by next week: Sushma Swaraj assures familiesAs many as 40 Indians were abducted by the ISIS terror group from Mosul in Iraq but one of them escaped posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh,...
26 Mar, 2018, 09.12 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj confirms the death of 39 Indian workers abducted by ISISTill June last year, the government maintained that the abducted Indians were alive and everything possible was being done to ensure their ...
21 Mar, 2018, 07.08 AM IST
Shattered families of massacred Indians ask "why Centre kept us in the dark?"Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government authority.
20 Mar, 2018, 06.33 PM IST
How Delhi tracked down the bodies of 39 Indians who went missing in IraqThe opposition Congress condoled the deaths but its Rajya Sabha leader Ghulam Nabi Azad recalled government that it had "assured us last ye...
20 Mar, 2018, 12.54 PM IST
No new development at Doklam face-off site: Sushma SwarajResponding to another question, he said boundary negotiations between Bhutan and China are matters of discussion between the two countries.
15 Mar, 2018, 10.15 PM IST
India has completed DNA testing of families of 39 Indians: Sushma SwarajThe government has been making all possible efforts to trace the 39 Indian workers missing in Iraq and currently it is trying to obtain pro...
20 Dec, 2017, 05.54 PM IST
Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of IraqIn 2014, IS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves.
02 Dec, 2017, 07.25 PM IST
- Blast kills 18 people in Baghdad
A truck packed with rockets blew up n Baghdad, killing 18 people in the deadliest single blast in the city in more than three months.
05 Jun, 2008, 03.16 AM IST