India has learned the location of 40 of its citizens kidnapped in Iraq by suspected Islamist militants and believes they are being held captive with workers of other nationalities, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The hostages worked for Baghdad-based construction company Tariq Noor Al Continue Reading
A casual wave to fellow diners in a Baghdad restaurant in 2008 sealed Nouri al-Maliki’s reputation as the man who restored a degree of normality to a city that civil war had nearly destroyed.Now he has gone out again among the people, strolling around the city to prove he is still attuned to their problems […]Continue Reading