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Iraq forces kill 75 ISIS insurgents in last 72 hours
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], October 29 (ANI): At least 75 militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
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Kurdish Regional Government to hold presidential elections in Nov
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Oct 29 (ANI): Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdish Regional Government, called for presidential elections in northern Iraq on November 1, a month earlier to the scheduled date (December 7).
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US airstrike kills, injures 22 ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Jalalabad (Nangarhar) [Afghanistan], October 26 (ANI): At least 22 terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Thursday were dead or wounded in a new deadly airstrike carried out by the United States forces in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
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Turkey 'absolute defender' of Iraq's unity, says PM Yildirim
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Oct 26 (ANI): In a display of solid ties with Iraq, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said that Turkey is an "absolute defender of Iraq's territorial integrity and political unity."
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USA lacks power to resolve Iraq crisis: former US State Dept. official
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 26 (ANI): Former US State Department official Wa'el Alzayat, remarking on the role of United States in resolving the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil, said that it lacks the power to facilitate dialogue between both the sides.
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NIA granted five days police custody of ISIS operative
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 25 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was granted five-day police custody of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operative Shajahan Velluva Kandy on Wednesday.
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Afghan forces kill three ISIS terrorists in Nangarhar province
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 24 (ANI): At least three militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed after the Afghan national defence and security forces conducted raids on their hideouts in the eastern Nangarhar province.
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Tillerson pays unannounced visit to Baghdad
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], October 24 (ANI): U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad, just hours after returning from a similar surprise visit to Afghanistan.
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U.S. airstrike destroys ISIS training camp in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 22 (ANI): At least 40 people including two trainers of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) terror group and several suicide bombers were killed in the airstrike conducted by the United States in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan
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India, Iraq maintain 39 Indians alive, DNA test for kin normal procedure
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.22 (ANI): The Government of India has said that asking relatives of the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul, Iraq, three years ago to undergo DNA tests is normal procedure to confirm identification.
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Kin of 39 Indians missing in Iraq to undergo DNA test
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct. 21 (ANI): Families of all 39 Indians who went missing in Iraq three years ago have been asked to undergo DNA tests for unspecified reasons.
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Death toll in Kabul Mosque blast rises to 39
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct 21 (ANI): The death toll in a suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in the western part of Kabul has reached 39.
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