ABSTRACT
The Indo-Iraqi relation is strategic in nature due to the links with energy security. Under Narendra Modi, the security and energy-related relationship has also found a cultural treatment along with several other ideological aspects of the government's foreign policy network. The development regarding Iraq during the first year of the Modi government, has been the development of close working relations between India and the Kurdish Regional Government headquartered in Erbil. India's difficult handling of Iraqi situation since May 2014 has been that the crisis over Indian guest workers in Iraq which has given India an opportunity to rekindle its intelligence collaboration with various agencies of the region. Since May 2014 the Indo-Iraqi relation has created a challenge as far as understanding the rapid diversification of the bilateral relation from an energy-specific relation to a multi-polar relation. The case of 39 Indian workers who were kidnapped in June 2014 has been the enduring trouble for the Modi government.
