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Iraq

OpIndia Explains

From Iraq to Yemen to Libya to Kabul: Some of the toughest evacuations executed by the Modi government

Jinit Jain - 23 August, 2021

In the last few years, India has been one of the countries that has been remarkably successful in executing its evacuation plans and bringing its stranded citizens back home

Political History of India

Amidst the Afghanistan crisis, read how India presided over the world’s largest citizen evacuation operation during Iraq-Kuwait war in 1990

Jinit Jain - 16 August, 2021

India's unprecedented evacuation of over 1,70,000 stranded citizens from Kuwait was depicted in the Bollywood movie Airlift.

News Reports

The narrow escape: How a group of 46 Indian nurses was rescued from ISIS captivity in strife-torn Iraq in 2014

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2021

Seven years ago, 46 Indian nurses who were held in captivity by the ISIS were rescued to safety and flown back to India

WTF News

Iraq: Baby born with three penises, creates history

OpIndia Staff - 4 April, 2021

In 2015, a baby born in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, had three penises, of which two had erectile tissue. His anus was also absent.

News Reports

Joe Biden administration faces accusation of hypocrisy after the airstrike in Syria, but Biden was always a war-hawk

OpIndia Staff - 26 February, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden approved military airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups in Syria as a retaliation for a rocket attack

World

Two suicide bombers detonate themselves in busy Baghdad market killing six, injuring dozens

OpIndia Staff - 21 January, 2021

As per reports, this was one of the rare suicide attacks in Central Baghdad.

World

US President Donald Trump threatens Iran with retaliation after US embassy in Baghdad attacked with rockets

OpIndia Staff - 24 December, 2020

The attacks come at a time when tensions are growing tensions between the United States and Iran amidst the last days of Trump’s presidency.

Media

When Bengaluru paid the price for the hanging of Saddam Hussein

Abhishek Banerjee - 13 August, 2020

In 2007, a group of people turned out on the streets to protest the hanging of Saddam Hussein. The rally was led by prominent Congress leader and former Cabinet Minister C K Jaffar Sharief.

Entertainment

“Pooja, what is this behaviour?” Read how Bigg Boss made an appearance after US bombed Iran leader Soleimani in Iraq

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2020

Indian reality tv show Bigg Boss, which everyone loves to hate but secretly watches to hate on it, has made it to US bombing Iranian general Soleimani in Iraq and putting the world on the verge of third world war.

News Reports