- The External Affairs Ministry is seeking support from the other Gulf countries: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia as well
- Ambassadors of the Gulf countries met the ministry and discussed assistance and suggest ways to evacuate Indians from Iraq
- Ministry met the families of 39 men who are captivated in Mosul, Iraq and they have been urging the government to figure out a way to evacuate them at the earliest, else threatened a protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar
- Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told that the abducted men are safe and camps are set up in Najaf, Karbala and Basra cities for emergency evacuation
- Air way and water way team is ready will be pressed into action if the violence, or the numbers of those wanting to be evacuated warrants it
- People from Mosul are trying to move away from the affected area, under the hot sun without food they wait across the Mosul-Erbil highway
- Vehicles were barred from moving Peshmerga region after an attack of a suicide bomber’s attack
- Sunnis, lots of Shia, one Palestinian and thousands of people are making their way out of Mosul
- The United Nations High Commission on Refugees-run Hazer camp is fast filling up with blue-and-white tents, mostly the Mosul refugees
- While food, fuel and water is limited now in the Iraq’s largest city and families are worried as the city is largely filled with violence
- Some days ago residents while leaving the city visited a construction site where Indians worked and found that insurgents had set up a base there, but has no idea where are they now
- People who moved out from Mosul saw that the migrant workers had been forced to build defensive earthworks on Mosul’s outskirts
- Dasht men dressed in Punjabi-style suits were standing around 50 meters away
- The ISIS insurgents have targeted shrines and emblem’s of Mosul, but have not carried out killing out of minorities
- Tikrit was counter attacked by Iraqi forces, Russia delivers first batch of Su-25 war planes to help Bagdad in crisis
- Government planes attacked Tirkit back to back, furious across the city many troops advanced in Iraq’s most ambitious operation since insurgents led by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) overran swathes of five provinces
- Alarmed leaders globally want the political solution to end the crisis and this cannot be done solely by military
- Lieutenant General of Tirkit are studying the important targets along with U.S. military advisers, the advisers Mr. Maliki and Amr Khuzaie feel crisis is even more dangerous than a brutal period of Sunni-Shia sectarian violence in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands
- Kurdish Peshmerga force advanced on Basheer(the Shia-majority village), south of Kirkuk that were taken over during the offense
- Delivery of the first batch of Sukhoi warplanes from Russia was taken by Iraq and the newly-purchased Su-25s expected to be pressed into service as soon as possible and pilots from Saddam’s air force would fly the planes
- Ground attack will help Iraq to root out ISIL-led militants from a string of towns and cities they have seized
- Officials of America have proposed a $500-million plan to arm and train moderate rebels in neighbouring Syria could also help Iraq fight ISIL, which operates in both countries
- U.N reported overall 1000 deaths mostly civilians and hundreds of soldiers, the International organisations have urged the establishment of humanitarian corridors to provide aid amid the fighting
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/mea-gears-up-for-iraq-evacuation/article6161295.ece
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/mosul-empties-out-as-fears-of-a-long-war-set-in/article6161312.ece
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/food-fuel-run-out-in-mosul/article6161300.ece
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/mosul-refugees-live-in-fear-uncertainty/article6161356.ece
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/baghdad-presses-tikrit-counterattack/article6161285.ece
Exams Perspective:
- ISIS
- Sectarian Violence in Iraq
- Syrian Crisis
- Indian Diaspora in Iraq