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How 4,000 year old business letters helped economists find 11 lost cities
Thousands of 4,000-year-old clay tablets, mostly merchants’ receipts and complaints about dangerous roads, helped economists estimate where eleven lost Bronze Age cities once stood. Their 2019 study used a standard trade model and found that geography, not farmland, may explain why some cities keep thriving across millennia.
Fear in Iraq's Mosul as Islamic State families return from Syria
IS fighters imposed a strict interpretation of Muslim "sharia" law, banning music and smoking and meting out brutal punishments, including public beheadings, for those who violated their rules.
Security agencies verify reports of Indians killed by ISIS in Iraq
Agencies were verifying the reports through different sources and trying to ascertain where there were Indians among those beheaded, the sources said.
Indians stand by families of those killed in Mosul: PM Modi
"Every Indian grieves with those who lost their loved ones in Mosul. We stand in solidarity with the bereaved families and pay our respects to the Indians killed in Mosul.
No substantial evidence on 39 missing Indians, says Iraq
After Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul from ISIS, India is seeking its help to locate the 39 missing Indian labourers, mostly from Punjab, who are kidnapped in Mosul three years ago.
‘39 Indians abducted in Iraq could be in jail near Mosul’
Union foreign minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday met family members of the 39 construction workers abducted from Mosul in 2014 and expressed hope that they would be released soon.
Iraqi forces push further into northeast Mosul, military says
MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-MOSUL:Iraqi forces push further into northeast Mosul, military says
IS chief Baghdadi surrounded by Iraqi Army inside Mosul
The battle for Mosul, where the self-declared caliph of IS is believed to be hiding, is likely to end in a decisive defeat for the terrorist group, the Independent reported.
Islamic state suspect Subahani Haja Moideen claims stay in Mosul
While staying in Mosul, Iraq he attended the same training camp with a Pakistani national who was later arrested by the French police.
Dislodging ISIS from Mosul a significant strategic game: US
"The symbolic importance that the ISIL (ISIS) has invested in their control of Mosul, dislodging them from the city would be a significant strategic game," he said.
'Cash-strapped ISIS killing injured fighters to sell organs'
"Doctors were threatened to take out the body organs of a wounded ISIL militant," the Arabic-language al-Sabah newspaper reported citing a source in Mosul.
ISIS making bombs using Mosul University chemistry lab: Report
The dreaded Islamic State terror group is making use of Iraq's well-stocked Mosul University chemistry lab to churn out a new generation of deadly explosives.
ISIS burns its fighters alive for letting Ramadi fall: Report
ISIS militants who lost a key town to Iraqi forces were burned alive in full public view by their own men after they fled to the group's stronghold of Mosul, in a terrifying message to other fighters, a media report has said.
Islamic State runs hotels, bridal shops, malls to lure jihadi recruits
The IS is running swanky five star hotels, bridal boutiques and shopping malls to entice foreign jihadi recruits via social media in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
US and Iraq plan operation to regain control of Mosul
CENTCOM officials said main attack force would consist of five Iraqi army brigades, which will all go through US training sites before they commence operation.
ISIS chemical weapons expert killed in US-led air strikes
Salih Jasim al-Sabawi alias Abu Malik was killed in an air strike near the ISIS-held city of Mosul on January 24.
US President Barack Obama hails recapturing of Iraq's strategic Mosul Dam
He said that the recapturing of the Mosul Dam by Iraqi and Kurdish forces with US support is a major step forward in the fight against the IS.
Barack Obama hails recapturing of Iraq's Mosul Dam
Obama said recapturing of strategic Mosul dam in Northern Iraq by Iraqi & Kurdish forces, backed by US air-strikes, is a major step forward in fight against the Sunni militant group.
40 Indians kidnapped in Iraq's Mosul, involvement of ISIS rebels suspected
Around 40 Indians working on projects near the Iraqi city of Mosul were kidnapped by suspected ISIS militants when they were being evacuated from the area.
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