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Iraqi forces unearth mass grave in IS stronghold Fallujah with over 400 bodies

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on 23 May announced the launch of a major offensive to retake Fallujah and surrounding towns and areas.

Macedonia closes borders for Afghan migrants; allows only Iraqis and Syrians now

Macedonian authorities confirmed earlier reports by Greek police, saying they are responding to a "domino effect" of similar restrictions by their neighbors to the north.

Terrorist threat: How four missing men and a car have put Odisha on high alert

International terrorism has arrived in Odisha. After the arrest of Al Qaeda operative Abdul Rehman from Tangi-Choudwar near Cuttack, Odisha police has been very busy in searching terrorist links in every suspect.

Multiple Islamic State suicide attacks kill 17 troops in Iraq's Anbar

Islamic State extremists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops in a major blow to government efforts to dislodge the militants from the sprawling Sunni heartland, an Iraqi military spokesman said on Wednesday.

14 killed, 65 injured in Iraq bomb attacks

Baghdad, Oct 23 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed and 65 wounded in two car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital city Wednesday, a police source said. A car bomb went off near the National Theater in Baghdad's Karrada district in the evening, leaving five people killed and 28 wounded, and the toll could rise as ambulances and police vehicles evacuated the casualties to hospitals, Xinhua quoted the source as saying. In another incident, a bomb exploded near a hospital in Sadr City district, killing at least nine people and wounding 37 , the source added.

Iraq's Maliki rejects pressure to give up premiership

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki refused on Friday to give up his quest for a third term in power, defying a chorus of critics demanding his replacement as the country faces an existential threat from Islamist insurgents. Maliki has come under mounting pressure since militants of the group now calling itself the Islamic State rampaged through swathes of the country last month and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate on land they have captured in Iraq and neighbouring Syria. "I will never give up my candidacy for the post of prime minister," Maliki said in a statement read out on state television by an announcer

Attacks kill 12 in Iraq's Mosul - sources

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber and unidentified gunmen killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police and hospital sources said, as sectarian and ethnic tensions build ahead of elections in April. The bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a military checkpoint in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, and detonated it, killing eight people and wounding 18, among them soldiers. "The blast destroyed everything