Tag: Iraq
44 Foreign hostages released in Iraq
ANKARA, June 20 -- A group of 44 foreign nationals including four Turkish citizens kidnapped Tuesday by tribal groups in northern Iraq have been released, a...
Iraq government traces location of 40 Indian kidnapped men!
New Delhi, June 20 - India was on Thursday grappling with the task of establishing contact with those responsible for the abduction of 40 Indian...
Militants fly their black flags over Iraq refinery!
Baghdad, June 20 - Sunni militants have hung their black banners on watch towers at Iraq's largest oil refinery, a witness said on Thursday, suggesting...
Iraq seeks US air power against militants: Officials
Dubai, June 18 - Iraq has requested U.S. air power to try to reverse rapid territorial gains by Sunni Muslim insurgents, U.S. and Iraqi officials...
Obama, US Congress mull options to aide Iraq!
Baghdad, June 19 - President Barack Obama updated congressional leaders on Wednesday on the situation in Iraq and reviewed what he sees as options for...
US mulls airstrikes on Iraq, holds talks with Iran!
Iraq, June 17 - President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq's besieged government on Monday, and U.S. and Iranian officials held...
Iraq violence: Indian nurses safe, says Embassy!
New Delhi, June 17 - Indian Embassy in Iraq has said that 46 Indian nurses stranded in Tikrit, the Iraqi town seized by Sunni militants,...
1,700 Iraqi Shia air force recruits executed in Tikrit!
Washington, June 16 - The US has condemned the reports of massacre of 1700 Iraqi Shia air force recruits in Tikrit by Islamic terrorists as...
Iraq insurgents take Saddam’s home town Tikrit in lightning advance!
Iraq, June 12 - Sunni rebels from an al Qaeda splinter group overran the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday and closed in on the...
60 people killed in bombings in Iraq
Baghdad, June 8 - Iraqis inspect the site of a car bomb attack that targeted the area a day earlier in Baghdad, Iraq, 08...
