Oil recoups some losses on signs of firm U.S. fuel demandData from the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed gasoline inventories fell by about 3.4 million barrels, while distillate stocks, wh...
31 Aug, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
Iran closes border to Iraq, flights stop amid violent unrestIraq's military said four rockets were launched into the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq's government where armed clashes ra...
30 Aug, 2022, 02.16 PM IST
Iraqi Shiite cleric says he'll retire, sparks fear of unrestIraq's military called on the protesters to withdraw immediately from the Green Zone and to practice self-restraint "to prevent clashes or ...
29 Aug, 2022, 06.56 PM IST
Death toll in Iraq market blast rises to 31The explosion occurred in the densely populated Sadr City district. Iraqi security services believe that the explosives were detonated by t...
20 Jul, 2021, 06.47 AM IST
In Iraq, an old United States foe grows his political powerOver the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...
29 Jun, 2021, 04.39 PM IST
1 killed, 12 wounded in market explosion in Iraq's capitalThe cause of the blast in the city's Sadr City area, in the Habibiya neighborhood, was not immediately known. It sent a cloud of black smok...
15 Apr, 2021, 05.52 PM IST
- Arab world hails shoe attack as Bush's farewell gift
Iraq faced mounting calls to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush, an action branded shameful by the government bu...
15 Dec, 2008, 07.56 PM IST
- Iraq handing out cash to people
It is a politician's dream: Handing out cold, hard cash to people on the street as they plead for help. Iraq's prime minister has been doin...
13 Jul, 2008, 05.50 AM IST
- Security gains in Iraq are fragile, reversible: Pentagon
Security continued to improve in Iraq from March to May with violence at its lowest level in four years, but the gains are "fragile, revers...
24 Jun, 2008, 05.09 AM IST
- British hostages in Iraq alive: Report
Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Baghdad more than a year ago are alive and Iraqi authorities know where they are being held, Ir...
22 Jun, 2008, 04.35 AM 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
- At least 925 people killed in Iraq's Sadr City clashes
At least 925 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City that began last month, a top ...
30 Apr, 2008, 06.09 PM IST
- Clashes in Baghdad militia bastion kill eight
Sporadic overnight clashes between Shiite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City killed at least eight people, including...
27 Apr, 2008, 01.04 PM IST
- British journalist rescued in Basra after two months in captivity
Iraqi troops freed a kidnapped British journalist Monday after finding him hooded and bound in a house during a raid in a Shiite militia st...
15 Apr, 2008, 12.35 AM IST
- Musharraf to take oath on Nov 29
Pakistan’s embattled military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, who once described his uniform as his second skin, will take oath as civilian presid...
27 Nov, 2007, 12.36 AM IST
- 'Musharraf still in command'
Rumour mills in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Monday went into overdrive about President Pervez Musharraf being replaced by his depu...
06 Nov, 2007, 03.30 AM IST
- US forces raid al-Sadr's stronghold
A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, America...
26 May, 2007, 02.00 PM IST