Indian nurses reach Mumbai

MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said, "We got in touch last evening. We have other means of getting in touch. We have won a small battle. The war is on." "We are engaged at the ground and at diplomatic levels... At this stage, our primary goal is to ensure that they are brought back from captivity. This is a war situation." India used all "national assets" to secure the release of the nurses from ISIS, who had forced them to move out of their hospital in Tikrit yesterday against their "free will", the MEA Spokesperson said."Diplomacy works through the front doors. We are using other doors and how those doors were used and knocked on and how they were opened up is a story for another day. The story for today is that one of those doors opened and we were able to extricate our nationals," the Spokesperson said.