In 2014, 46 Indian nurses were taken hostage by the ISIS in Iraq. They were initially stranded at a hospital in Tikrit and later moved to Mosul from where they were freed by the fighters of Islamic......
IMAGE: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met the families of some of the workers abducted in Iraq in New Delhi in June 2014. Photograph: PTI The MEA insists the hostages are alive, but the......
The Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has not demanded ransom nor has it shown any inclination to negotiate. Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com reports The Indian agencies that have been......
Efforts continued on Saturday to secure the release of the 39 kidnapped Indians in Mosul town of strife-torn Iraq with the government remaining in touch with the countries in the region to resolve......
The ground situation in Iraq is so bad that there is no scope for any non-conventional action or any kind of bravery. Patience, slow movement, and full backing to Indian negotiators would help in......