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TopicIraq

Topic: Iraq

Iraq may have ‘fourth-biggest oil producer’ tag, but there is little to show for it

For all its petro-wealth, Iraq lacks steady electricity supplies and has trouble attracting the kinds of investment needed to create jobs.

Iraq wants India to help boost its education culture, offers scholarships to students

Iraq, which is looking to tackle its lack of innovation and improve university rankings, has announced 40 scholarships for PG and UG Indian students this...

The deaths of these 4 leaders could change the Middle East forever

When the leaders of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Oman pass away, their regimes could fade with them.

A Ramzan ceasefire in Afghanistan too, and the US and Canada are locking horns on trade

Spain just swore in a 'feminist' government and the United States of America has imposed tariffs on its neighbours, leading to a trade war with Canada.

The small-town boy who became India’s first ISIS suicide bomber

In less than a decade, Fayaz Kagzi went from being a B.Ed student in Maharashtra to Lashkar recruiter and finally ended up dying for the ISIS cause in Saudi Arabia

Global Pulse: Bloody protest as USA’s Israel embassy moves to Jerusalem

As America moves its embassy to Jerusalem it deals a deathly blow to 70 years of neutrality in Israel. 82 women march up the red carpet at Cannes to protest gender inequality at the festival. Iraq battles it out at the ballot box this time. 

Global Pulse: By pulling out of the Iran Deal, Trump risks another war in the Middle East

On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known commonly as the Iran Deal.

Hope for a better future had taken Indians to Mosul. Now, their families have none left

Most of those killed by the IS belonged to landless families, and had taken loans far beyond their means to be able to go abroad to work.

Swaraj swore by Goddess Kali that Mosul missing would be brought back alive, say families

A day after minister confirmed that the 39 Indians were dead, their families can’t shake off the feeling that they were misled by the govt for 4 years.

The lone survivor on how 39 Indians were killed in Iraq’s Mosul

In an excerpt from the most authoritative inside account of the abduction of 40 Indians in Iraq, the only survivor recalls the events as they happened.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.